Description:
A passionate intensity moves through the subjective, intimate voice of the poems of Natalka Bilotserkivets. Through translation, Subterranean Fire continues their mysterious pilgrimage to their second lives.
Brief description: Natalka Bilotserkivets is a Ukrainian poet and translator. She was born in the village of Kuianivka near Sumy and was educated at Kyiv University. She married the critic Mykola Riabchuk and lives in Kyiv. She works as an editor for Ukrainian Culture magazine. Her first collection of poems Ballad about the Invincibles (Balada pro neskorenykh) was published in 1976, while she was still in university. She has also published the collections The Underground Fire (1984) and November (1989). The collections Allergy (1999) and Central Hotel (2004) were the winners of Book of the Month contests in 2000 and 2004 respectively.
Review Quotes:
Natalka Biloserkivets "has been a leading literary voice through half a century of her country's history. Indeed, her words have occasionally broken free from the literary world into popular culture . Through her own voice and with her own priorities, Bilotserkivets has reflected on her country's many transformations. Subterranean Fire is a retrospective reprint of some of her most iconic and exemplary pieces, guided by the poet herself." Thom Dinsdale, East-West Review