With his signature humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict along the Russian border.

Three Wooden Trunks is a collection of poems about memory and the poet’s Ukrainian roots, and of the poet’s family’s pursuit of a sweeter, easier life in America.

Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, nonstop propaganda flows from TV and neighbors begin to hate their neighbors.

It is Ukraine, at the start of the 21st century, but it is also eerily recognizable anywhere. These brief lyric poems speak about the memory of historical trauma and witness stark individual voices that pierce through the wall of complacency. What is the music of such times? What is its metaphysics? This collection of poetry from two contemporary voices gives us an unflinching, memorable response.

Volume 9 in the Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. Bilingual Edition.

In Dream Bridge: Selected Poems, Oleh Lysheha creates worlds in which horses drawn on Paleolithic caves speak their truths and the glance of a swan can transform a lost soul. Each poem leads us down an invisible path that keeps shifting, transforming us and our ideas of poetry, together with the story.

In the 1970s Oleh Lysheha was expelled from Lviv University for translating modern American poetry and was sent to serve in the Red Amy in the Buryat Republic of Siberia. There he found his lifelong interest in Asian and indigenous cultures. Known as a “poets’ poet,” Lysheha’s poems were also used by Yara Arts Group, as texts for theatre pieces. In a concluding essay in the book, Artistic Director Virlana Tkacz, relates the story of the translations she created with Wanda Phipps collected in this volume and the productions she staged with them at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York.

Volume 10 in the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. Bilingual Edition.

Clytemnestra plotting her husband’s murder, Ophelia criticizing her creator, and a report from Chernobyl all offer the poet occasions for reflections marked by a sophisticated wit and a philosophical probing reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska or Adam Zagajewski. By turns urgent and ironic, Zabuzhko’s poetry stands alongside the finest and most important work to emerge from Europe in the last half century.

In his selection of essays, Serhii Plokhy provides his analysis of the key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s complex relations with Russia and the West, tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine’s role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Using an elegant style and a comprehensive approach, these essays uncover the causes of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, Europe’s largest country.

Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow brings together a selection of Natalka Bilotserkivets poetry written over the last four decades. Having established an English language following largely on the merits of a single poem, Bilotserkivets’s larger body of work continues to be relatively unknown. Natalka Bilotserkivets was an active participant in Ukraine’s Renaissance of the late-Soviet and early independence period.

Now, nearly thirty years on, much has changed in the land of her birth, but the lyricism and urgency in Bilotserkivets’s poetry remain; her voice still speaks about movement and restricted movement, even symbolic movement. Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow endeavors to go back to shed light on the missing history.

Volume 8 in the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. Bilingual Edition.

Born and raised in a small coal-mining town in Ukraine’s industrial east, Lyuba Yakimchuk lost her family home in 2014, when the region was occupied by Russian-backed militants, and her parents and sister were forced to flee as refugees. Reflecting the complex emotional experiences of a civilian witnessing a gradual disintegration of her familiar surroundings, Apricots of Donbas is a versatile collection, ranging from sumptuous verses about the urgency of erotic desire in a war-torn city to imitations of child-like babbling about the tools and toys of military combat.

Playfulness in the face of catastrophe is a distinctive feature of Yakimchuk’s voice, evoking the legacy of the Ukrainian Futurists of the 1920s. The poems’ artfulness goes hand in hand with their authenticity, offering intimate glimpses into the story of a woman affected by a life-altering situation beyond her control.

Volume 7 in the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. Bilingual Edition.

This timely book is the first English-language biography of the doctrine’s founder, Dmytro Dontsov (1883–1973), the “spiritual father” of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Organizing his research of the period around Dontsov’s life, Erlacher has written a global intellectual history of Ukrainian integral nationalism from late imperial Russia to postwar North America, with relevance for every student of the history of modern Europe and the diaspora.

Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book tells the stories of Ukrainian women who were sentenced to the GULAG in the 1940s and 1950s.

With this book, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners.

It details the women’s resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences.