#Mikhail Sytnyk

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Translation by Maria Petina.

Kind of heart

I am not Esenin, not Susura Not Lermontov or Fet. I am just, by my nature A dear, no name poet.

To love, I know how to in my own ways, I don’t learn this from others I laugh, I miss and I hurt And often cry without any reasons

I am not kidding, But maybe I am lying, And maybe this love is not worth it Nor worth that I’m writing to you.

But everyone judges in their own ways, And where necessary, offer praise And where it should hit, it can I’m also asking - not to pity

I don’t love this stubbornness Or slime of knowledge Frankly I will tell you The kind of heart these poems go. [1937]

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1930-1960 [Sytnyk Personal Journal] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

First Page and Cover of Journal Entry, describing his health and life

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Mikhail Sytnyk Fonds at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library [visiting date February 29th, 2024]

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1937 [Collection of Poems] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

Translation by Google

Boat

Overgrown with moss under a willow tree.

Swinging on the waves of the current...we do not know who threw him here at this time.

Can the fisherman sailing home from the catch forget to fasten the boat to the shore on the restless waves.

We cannot figure it out. But don't worry, black-browed. Probably, his gentle waves brought Him to us for love.

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1953 [Newspaper clippings about Sytnyk] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

Using Google Translate:

"It seems that Mikhail Sytnyk is the most sincere, direct and the more accessible to our readers, perhaps a beloved poet poet today. It is evident as he has not had a single collection out in the market today, they have all been sold out of stock for a long time. Other poets and bookshops are simply horrified [shocked?] by those stocks.

Mikhail Stynyk was born in 1920 in the Kyiv region. He graduated from the history faculty of Kiev Pedagogical Institute. M. Gorky named after Gorky. He began publishing in Ukraine (1937) in the magazine "Molody Bolsovyk" (Kyiv) and Literary Journal (1939-1940) in almost all periodicals during that time. He took an active part in the literary life of the capital, speaking at literary evenings at the institute, at the Union of Soviet Writers."

"Although M. Sytnyk also belongs to the October Generation*, he is hostile towards the Russian Occupation Authorities, and during the war he remains on the side of the Iron Curtain. But the change of the occupier (from Russian to German) did not give him the opportunity to reveal himself in a way [that he would like]."

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1953 [Newspaper Clippings] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1959 [Other correspondence to Sytnyk, Letter from his Mother] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1959 [Other correspondence to Sytnyk] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

Translation by Maria Petina.

Postcard being sent to Michael living in Chicago now. "May these roses remind you of your wonderful homeland. - From Shura (aka Sasha aka Alexandra) 1959 K"

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1930-1960 [Sytnyk Personal Journal] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

A to-do list? Schedule?

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Mikhail Sytnyk 1930-1960 [Sytnyk Personal Journal] Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Ms. Coll. 00578. Toronto, Ontario.

Why would one archive doodles?