Description:
Vortex is a landmark volume of poetry by Vasyl Stus (1938-1985), a key figure of twentieth-century Ukrainian literature. A poet of philosophical depth and lyrical power, he transformed Soviet persecution into searching poems on self-creation, freedom, and justice.
Brief description:
Vasyl Stus (1938-1985) was a prominent Ukrainian poet and dissident. He is renowned for his philosophically intricate poetry that fuses existential depth with moral intensity. For his uncompromising defense of cultural and political freedom, he was arrested in 1972 and spent the final thirteen years of his life in Soviet prisons and labor camps. Stus wrote several volumes of poetry, including his magnum opus collections Time of Creativity and Palimpsests created in the Gulag.