"In the Tight Triangle of the Night" The Early Poetry of Yuriy Tarnawsky (1956-1971), between Modernism and Postmodernism

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translations

Introduction

1. The New York Group and its Meta-Critical Discourse: Between Modernism and the New Avant-Garde

2. “Running Barefoot Home and Back”: The Life and Poetry of Yuriy Tarnawsky

3. In Sartre’s Shadow: Zhyttia v Misti and Existentialism

4. Rewriting Space: Idealizovana Biohrafiia (1964), Spomyny (1964), and Bez Espanii (1967)

5. The Path Toward Abstraction: Ankety (1967–68)

6. Ut Pictura Poesis: Object, Poetry, and Visual Arts after Ankety

7. The Poetics of Nothingness and the Death of the Subject

Epilogue

Appendix. Unpublished Poems (1954–55)