What Does the New Generation Choose?

"We are part of the generation, we cherish it as much as birds do crystal clear air..." Alas, they appear to cherish not Pepsi, for they are "sons of bitches raised on cheap port." And rhyming is something special...

This collection is only part of a book published as a Ukrainian-German project. It includes the poetic series "Letters from Romeo" by Walter Zahorka, a Czech dissident who emigrated in 1969 and settled in Nuremberg. He is known more as a political figure. In 1983, acting on behalf of Charter 77, he cycled all of Europe. He refers to himself as a "soldier of the Foreign Legion of Art in Germany." Small vers libre letters were translated from the German by Oleksandra Kovaliova and Ursula Kerstan translated into German the Ukrainian poet. Without doubt, the idea of this two-volume edition is quite interesting, but the print run (1,000 copies) automatically categorizes it as yet another bibliographic grant phantom (incidentally, a very popular publishing genre of late).