A collection of Yuri Izdryk's poetry which explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and God. 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.
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.¿
