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Mykola Ryabchuk

Side by side

Vlady Nikitin

(from Epitaphs)

Vlady Nikitin died
from the same cause

but twice as fast;

an incremental increase
probably equal to the speed
of his inner combustion
coupled with the frozenness which surrounded him
in the thin stratus
of the noosphere.

VLADY NIKITIN

Mykola Ryabchuk

(Ukraine, 1953)

Mykola Ryabchuk is one of the Ukraine’s most important intellectuals, although his name seems to be much better known abroad than at home. His first book of poetry was published when he was 36 and his first collection of short stories when he was 49. Since 2000 he has been publishing books of political analysis. Each of them has immediately been translated into several European languages.

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Vlady Nikitin

(from Epitaphs)

Vlady Nikitin died
from the same cause

but twice as fast;

an incremental increase
probably equal to the speed
of his inner combustion
coupled with the frozenness which surrounded him
in the thin stratus
of the noosphere.

Vlady Nikitin

(from Epitaphs)

Vlady Nikitin died
from the same cause

but twice as fast;

an incremental increase
probably equal to the speed
of his inner combustion
coupled with the frozenness which surrounded him
in the thin stratus
of the noosphere.