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The book of selected works by Vasyl Symonenko includes textbook works of the outstanding Ukrainian poet of the sixties.

Simonenko's poetry is extraordinary, melodic and emotionally powerful, and sometimes sly and scathing.

In the spring of 1960, the Club of Creative Youth was founded in Kyiv, with the aim of uniting the spiritual and physical efforts of the younger generation to build a renewed Ukraine. Symonenko, along with Lina Kostenko, Alla Horska, Ivan Drach, Ivan Svitlychnyi, Mykola Vingranovskyi, Vasyl Stus, and Yevhen Sverstiuk, was the soul of this Club. He became a defining figure in the struggle for Ukraine's state and cultural sovereignty in the second half of the twentieth century.

Simonenko's self-published poetry marked the beginning of the Ukrainian resistance movement of the 1960s and 1970s.