This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and their adopted homelands, underscoring the group's role in the shaping of the cultural and literary image of Ukraine abroad. Displacements, forced or voluntary, engender states of alterity, states of living in-between, living in the interstices of different cultures and different linguistic realities. The poetry of the founding members of the New York Group reflects these states admirably. The poets accepted their exilic condition with no grudges and nurtured the link with their homeland via texts written in the mother tongue. This account of the group’s output and legacy will appeal to all those eager to explore the poetry of East European nations and to those interested in larger cultural contexts for the development of European modernisms.

"“The book is replete with telling formulations, assured historical generalizations, and accomplished textual analyses. Rewakowicz assists the reader unfamiliar with the subject matter with generous quotations, accompanied by translations that manage to be simultaneously empathetic and accurate. A welcome addition to scholarship on modern Ukrainian literature, the book will be of value to all who inquire into literature at cultural and linguistic interstices.”" - Slavic Review, vol. 74, no. 4 (Winter 2015)

"“Maria Rewakowicz’s cutting-edge and insightful book might be of great interest to several audiences: those who are interested in twentieth-century poetry, and the Ukrainian poetry of this period in particular; those who are keen to learn more about literature and exile; as well as those who are curious about a redefined map of modernisms. ... Rewakowicz’s book is ... an all-round study, and a thoughtful contribution to the increasing body of high-quality literature on Ukrainian poetry.”" - The Modern Language Review

"“This elegantly structured book of essays is the first study devoted exclusively to the poets of the New York Group, a remarkably diverse group of individuals who created an original corpus of programmatically modernist poetry in Ukrainian. … Rewakowicz captures the essence of the poets’ intellectual adventure, shaped by Western influences and rich in thematic and formal experimentation, which, as she writes, truly becomes their home.” —Yelena Severina University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 35, No. 1–4" - Harvard Ukrainian Studies