Sapeliak Stepan (1 results)

158 pages: illustrations; 20 cm. Original illustrated publisher?s wrappers. Cover design by Hryhorii Hirchak; illustrations by Valerii Bondar; artistic design by Ihor Bondar. Text in Ukrainian. Biblioteka ?Prolohu? i ?Suchasnosti,? no. 184. With the "Prolog Assoc Library, No. 04-020-00" stamp on the title page and library spine label. Light shelf wear to wrappers; minor creasing at extremities. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page, dated 6 April 1989 (Kharkiv). Signed copy of a poetry collection by Stepan Sapeliak (1952?2012), Ukrainian poet, dissident, and participant in the national liberation movement. Sapeliak was associated with the underground intellectual milieu surrounding the samizdat journal Ukrains?kyi Visnyk and belonged to the generation of writers persecuted by Soviet authorities for their political convictions and cultural activism. Arrested in the early 1970s for ?anti-Soviet agitation,? he spent years in Soviet prisons and labor camps, experiences that profoundly shaped his poetic voice.