BOOK NOTES

Bilingual edition of poetry by Viktor Neborak

"Flying Head and Other Poems," by Viktor Neborak. Lviv: Sribne Slovo Publishers, Lviv Polytechnic University, 2005. 304 pp., $20 (hardcover).

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A bilingual edition of Viktor Neborak's "The Flying Head and Other Poems" has recently been published in a limited hard-cover edition by Sribne Slovo Publishers of Lviv Polytechnic University. Olha Luchuk of Lviv served as editor for the volume.

The book contains Michael M. Naydan's translation of "The Flying Head," as well as several other translations into English from "Alter Ego" by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, Jars Balan, Mark Andryczyk and Yaryna Yakubyak. Additionally, the book has a guest introduction by Yuri Andrukhovych, a conventional and an unconventional introduction by Prof. Naydan, and an author's note by Mr. Neborak. Illustrations for the book are by Lviv artist Yurko Kokh.

A presentation of Mr. Neborak's book was held in Kyiv on June 14, with the author, Ms. Tkacz and Ms. Luchuk taking part in the launch. Another book presentation will be held at the World Association of Ukrainian Studies which meets in Donetsk in July.

For copies of the 304-page book, interested individuals may contact Prof. Naydan of Penn State University, at (814) 865-1675, or by e-mail at mmn3@psu.edu. A small number of copies are available for $20 (U.S.) plus shipping costs for individual or library purchase.

Mr. Neborak, a representative of the new wave of Ukrainian literature of the 1980s, is a Lviv poet, prose writer and essayist and co-founder of the now legendary Bu-Ba-Bu literary group founded in Lviv in 1985.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 17, 2005, No. 29, Vol. LXXIII

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