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Translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps (Lost Horse Press, paperback)

Publication Date: April 26, 2022

Publisher Marketing: Dream Bridge: Selected Poemsby Oleh Lysheha is the tenth volume in the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. 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, Lyshehas 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.