EXPERIENCE OF HOPE AND LONELINESS IN BOHDAN BOYCHUK’S LITERARY DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article presents the poet Bohdan Boychuk, a co-founder of the New York Group which published
their works in a Ukrainian emigre periodical edition “Novi Poezii” (“New Poetry”) in 1959–1971. It was
an important time for poet’s creative communication and contacts. It was in this group that Bohdan
Boychuk matured into a popular well-known leader in literary Ukrainian Emigre circles. His poetry began
to project an individuality apart from that of the general emigre creativity of Ukrainian writers in the USA
and gained an alternative literary status even among the members of his New York Group.