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The collection of poems «Vita Memoriae» (Life of Memory) is the last work on which Les Taniuk worked - a poet and translator, director and art critic, dissident of the sixties, founder of the legendary Club of Creative Youth (CYC), Chairman of the National Union of Theatre Workers and founder of the All-Ukrainian Society «Memorial» named after Vasyl Stus. Vasyl Stus, MP of the Verkhovna Rada of I-V convocations, a man of encyclopaedic knowledge and high culture; It is no coincidence that people who were impressed by Les Taniuk's universalism and spiritual talent called him «Knight of Culture», «Warrior of Honour», «Guardian of Historical Memory’…

The poems in the collection are presented according to the chronological principle of writing, but in the corresponding cycles, where this principle may be violated. So, we have «Introduction» - and three cycles: "Omnia vincit amor" (Love conquers all), "Urbi et orbi" (civic lyrics), "Totus mundus agit histrionem" (The whole world is playing a comedy - based on theatrical motifs). The collection is rounded off by &Selected Translations».

We should also mention here the Russian-language poems of the period of Moscow emigration, which, given the publishing policy of Smoloskyp, are presented in an excellent and accurate translation by Stanislav Chernilevsky.