Smokes by Izdryk, Yuri

Smokes

Yuri Izdryk's poetry explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and even God....
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Author: Yuri Izdryk
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Smokes by Izdryk, Yuri

Smokes

CHF 28.84

Smokes

CHF 28.84
Author: Yuri Izdryk
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Yuri Izdryk's poetry explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and even God. All his poems operate with an indefatigable play with language that encompasses incessant punning rhymes, Joycean multilingual puns, ludic shifts of tone and register, and scintillating intertextual games. In creating a sophisticated semantic soundscape where sound drives meaning, Izdryk impishly reinvigorates the rhyming tradition in Ukrainian poetry, which only recently has leaned towards free verse. To a North American reader, the poems--which are all short riffs--evoke styles of rap, hip-hop, or jazz. Largely letting go of the rhymes, the translators of this selection of Izdryk's work emphasize his zany rhythms to capture his deft play with both modernity and tradition, and his vigorous gallows humor. In Izdryk, linguistic dexerity is the roll of the dice that, though it can't vanquish apocalyptic despair, can keep its desolation at bay.



Author: Yuri Izdryk
Publisher: Lost Horse Press
Published: 04/01/2019
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780999199466

About the Author

Yuri Izdryk was born in western Ukraine, in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region, in 1962. One of Ukraine's most original and playful voices, Izdryk is a writer, musician, and visual and performance artist. He is the author of several books of prose and received wide critical acclaim for his 1997 experimental novel Wozzeck. In the past decade, Izdryk has primarily focused on poetry, which he featured in his livejournal blog "The Dead Diary."


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