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Yuri Tarnavsky is a modern poet and prose writer, playwright, translator, intellectual and revolutionary of the poetic language of the late 50s and early 60s, a cybernetic linguist, one of the founders of the New York Group and a member of the American avant-garde group Fiction Collective. The book of articles, criticism, and conversations Flowers for the Sick opens the door to the writer's creative laboratory and allows us to better understand his artistic world, artistic position, and character. This book also provides an answer to the question of how to modernise Ukrainian literature in the context of the world literature, which is very relevant today. The section "Articles" contains works that examine the phenomena of Ukrainian literature and works that raise theoretical literary issues. The book also deals with theatre and the perception of world theatre, in particular, the productions of "Trojans" at the La Mama theatre, "Cembelin" and "Hamlet" in 2000 by Andrei Serban, reflections on Jerzy Hoffmann's "By Fire and Sword" and Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Theorem". The book is completed by the extremely expressive and profound "Conversations", which Yuriy Tarnavsky rightly interprets as a kind of articles in the form of dialogues in which literary, social, linguistic and theoretical issues related to the coverage of the author's literary work are discussed. It is a kind of contemporary form of philosophy. Some versions of articles and Ukrainian originals are published for the first time. The Ukrainian writer-intellectual gives us his "Flowers to the Sick", which can contribute to the recovery of Ukrainian society. This book is not just a collection of literary or cultural analyses, it is something more in its content and significance (like those flowers to a sick person), because perhaps without this book Tarnavsky would not have been read in Ukraine exactly as Yuri Tarnavsky himself would have wanted it to be!