Poet, ocean and fish

The book of selected poems "Poet, Ocean and Fish" by Vasyl Makhno (b. 1964) - a famous Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, translator, who has lived in the United States since 2000 - includes works from the collection "Scheme" , "Caesar's Loneliness", "Book of Hills and Hours", "February Elegies and Other Poems", "Fish Fish", "38 Poems about New York", "Cornelia Street Cafe5", "Winter Letters", "I Want to Be" jazz and rock 'n' roll "," Rover "," Jerusalem Poems "," Paper Bridge ", published during 1993-2017. Vasyl Makhno, according to Yuri Barabash, is one of the most famous Ukrainian poets in the world, whose works have been translated and published in different languages. Critics of many countries, including Ukrainian ones - Bohdan Rubchak, Ivan Fizer, Tamara Gundorova, Yuri Barabash, Johanan Petrovsky-Stern, Maria Revakovych, Oksana Lutsyshyna - reflecting on the peculiarities of Makhno's poetics and identity, draw attention to the special metaphorical structures of poetry. , spatial toponymy, its detailing. The internal and external amplitude of Makhno's poetic language stretches from Chortkiv and Ternopil to New York, from Antonych to Saint-John Perce and Ashbury, from the exuberance of the rose to the instantaneous flash of fireflies. Poetry is one of the forms of exact language with which Vasyl Makhno has been closing holes in the fickle body of the flute for a long time ...