You are listening to the audio collection of poems "Gruni and grazhdy" in the voice of the author with his Hutsul orthoepy - Vasyl Zelenchuk, today a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Audiostories invites you to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine by purchasing this audiobook!

These texts are an example of a surprisingly organic way of life of a modern poet in the continuum of the traditional culture of the Hutsul region and, in particular, the space-time of the literary environment of his native Kryvorivna with "visions and echoes" of what happened in it during its more than a century of history. The poet not only knows what, but also feels how "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" were born in Kryvorivna. In the Kryvyi Rih church, he stands in the place of Ivan Paliichuk from M. Kotsyubynskyi's story, and in the place of Ivan Mykolaichuk from S. Parajanov's film, and in his own place... He enters the barn under the cream of Igrets, contemplates the solar signs on the bastard, and Ivanchik, the restless grandfather, is already suggests the idea of "Igretska Zgarda", weaves reminiscences into the future sonnet wreath...