Vasyl Symonenko. Silence and Thunder. The Selected poetry. /Ukr-Eng bilingual/.

"These new translations by the prominent Ukrainian scholar and translator Michael M.Naydan, Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, comprise the most complete bilingual Ukrainian-English edition of Vasyl Symonenko's poetry to date. It is illustrated by the graphic works of well-known Lviv artist Liudmila Loboda."
In Ukrainian/English.
Type of the edition: hard cover, dust cover
Format: 170x197 mm
Number of pages: 128, illustrated
Publisher: Piramida, Lviv

Contents:

- Mykhaylo M.Naydan. Peredmova \ Michael M.Naydan. Introduction

- Budu tebe zhdaty tam, de vyshnja bila \ I'll be waiting for you where the white cherry tree

- Shum poliv \ The rustling of the fields

- Hnivni sonety: \ The angry sonnets:

1. Pohoda \ 1. Weather

2. Bez nazvy \ 2. Without a title

- Perespiv z narodnoji \ A folk variation

- Brama \ The gateway

- Malen‘ki sontsja \ Tiny suns

- Osinniy vechir morozovi dykhav \ The autumn evening breathed to the frost

- Zymovyy vechir \ The wintry evening

- Ne dyvysja tak pechal‘no, briv pokhmuro ne pidvod‘ \ Don't look so sadly, don't raise your brows sternly

- U dushi mojiy \ In my soul

- Tysha \ Silence

- Ja tut odyn, mov u chuzhomu kraji \ I'm here alone as if I'm in a foreign land

- Hrudochka zemli \ A handful of earth

- My dumajem pro vas. V pohozhi litni nochi \ We think of you. During calm summer nights

- Verba \ The willow

- Mozhe, ty zi mnoju nadto stroha \ Maybe you are too harsh with me

- Jak khoroshe radity bez prychyny \ How good it is to be happy for no reason

- Niby krapli zhovti, v temnu vodu \ Like yellow droplets, ripe stars fall

- Bubnjavijut‘ dumky, prorostajut‘ slovamy \ Thoughts swell, they grow into words

- Chuju \ I hear

- Tysha i hrim \ Silence and thunder

- Berezy, v snihu zanimili \ Birches, mute in the snow

- Vse bulo. Doroha zakrychala \ Everything happened. The road began to scream

- Stil‘ky v tebe ochey \ You have so many eyes

- Ja dyvljusja v tvoji pereljakani ochi \ I look into your frightened eyes

- Mandrivnyk \ The traveler

- Chandra \ The veil

- Vpalo sontse v vechirnju kurjavu \ The sun fell into the evening dust

- Odurena \ She was played the fool

- Lebedi materynstva \ The swans of motherhood

- Dohmatyky \ Dogmatics

- Ponesy mene na krylakh, radoste moja \ Carry me on wings, my joy

- Osinniy dysonans \ Autumn dissonance

- Verby y topoli, dibrovy y haji \ Willows and poplars, oak groves and meadows

- Vstaje nad namy sontse, jak vstavalo \ The sun rises above us as it always has risen

- Samotnist‘ \ Loneliness

- Nayohydnishi ochi porozhni \ The most detestable eyes are empty

- Bereh chekannja \ Shore of anticipation

- Ljudy chasto zhyvut‘ pislja smerti \ People often live after death

- Ty znajesh, shcho ty – ljudyna? \ Do you know you are a person?

- Mynule ne vernut‘ \ You can't return the past

- Tam, u stepu, skhrestylysja dorohy \ There in the steppe roads crossed

- Z vikna \ From a window

- Prorotstvo 17-ho roku \ The prophesy of 1917

- De zaraz vy, katy moho narodu? \ Where are you now, torturers of my nation?

- Pokara \ Punishment

- Ne bazhaju ja nichoho, khochu til‘ky odnoho \ I wish for nothing, but I want only one thing

- Ljudy – prekrasni \ People are beautiful

- Je tysjachi dorih, mil‘yon vuz‘kykh stezhynok \ There are thousands of roads, millions of narrow paths

- Ja tikaju vid tebe, vid muky i vtomy \ I run away from myself, from torment and torpor

- Nekroloh kukurudzjanomu kachanovi, shcho zhnyv na zahotpunkti \ Necrology for a corncob that rotted at the procurement center

- Zahraje smert‘ irzhavoju truboju \ Death will play on a rusty horn

- Zemlja krychyt‘. Shynkujut‘ krov'ju viyny \ The earth screams. Wars trade in