[AZ Foreman]

My translation of Taras Shevchenko's "Testament"/"Заповіт", easily one of the most famous and universally known poems in Ukrainian, has found a home with the EastWest Literary Forum in the 'Poets of Ukraine' series

(I went ahead and posted a reading of it in Ukrainian on my soundcloud)

[Ann Drysdale]

Moving and timely. Thank you for translating, and posting, it.

[John Isbell]

Timely indeed! And well rendered.

And it's good to remember that not only was Shevchenko born into serfdom, he also lived in a nation - Ukraine - that like Poland spent the Nineteenth Century absent from the map, being entirely occupied by Russia. It seems no coincidence that these lines -

Stand and water freedom with
Blood from tyrant veins -

directly echo the Marseillaise: "Qu'un sang impur / Abreuve nos sillons."

Cheers,
John

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Timely indeed. Congratulations!

Sarah-Jane