Sky. Crooked Chasm. Water

Before you is a collection of works that is key to understanding the artistic and aesthetic outlook of Vasyl Stus, one of the most tragic and profound Ukrainian poets of the 20th century.

The sky, cliffs, ravines, water - symbolic elements in which and through which the poet lived, fought, dissolved, created. Through his poems, Vasyl Stus paved the way from a mundane and adaptable existence to an honest and deep communication with oneself, to a life that takes place within oneself, above oneself.