Book record
Winter King
Ostap Slyvynsky
Translated from Ukrainian by Iryna Shuvalova
Winter King, by Ostap Slyvynsky, is a poetry collection from Ukraine, translated by Vitaly Chernetsky, Iryna Shuvalova, published by Lost Horse Press. It is a Ukrainian collection by Ostap Slyvynsky where winter, authority, cold, and survival gather into mythic weather. The king in the title may be season, power, atmosphere, or the part of the self that learns to rule under deprivation. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Ukraine. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Lost Horse Press
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Country
- Ukraine