
Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha (1949–2014) was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, and translator. In 1972, shortly after he was drafted into the Soviet army, he was internally exiled to Buryatia and banned from publishing his work for sixteen years. He was later invited to the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, and the Miłosz Festival. He also traveled to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar. The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha, translated by the author and James Brasfield, was published in 1999 by the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University.
AGNI has published the following work:
We Can Talk About This
Blog post by Oleh Lysheha • Translated by James Brasfield and Oksana Tatsyak
Swan
Poetry by Oleh Lysheha • Translated from the Ukrainian by Oleh Lysheha and James Brasfield
AGNI has published the following translation:
Swan
Poetry by Oleh Lysheha • Translated from the Ukrainian by Oleh Lysheha and James Brasfield