ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This volume would not have been possible without the enormous support and efforts of Marian J. Rubchak, who also goes by Mariana or Mar’iana in Ukrainian, to whom we are exceedingly grateful. She went far beyond the call of duty to promote the legacy of her husband Bohdan Rubchak and devoted an enormous amount of time to explaining biographical connections in his poetry.

The poems “Dramaturgy” and “The Angel’s Betrayal” both first appeared in the poetry anthology A Hundred Years of Youth (Litopys Publishers, 2000). All other translations are appearing here for the first time. Mykola Riabchuk’s essay “The Stigmata of Wings: On the Poetry of Bohdan Rubchak” first appeared in Ukrainian as a preface to Rubchak’s final collection Krylo Ikarove (The Wing of Icarus; Kyiv: Dnipro Publishers, 1991). We are grateful to Alina Zhurbenko for her assistance in the final stages of the project.