Yuriy Tarnawsky is the author of 19 collections of poetry, seven plays, nine books of fiction, a biography, and numerous articles and translations. Born in Ukraine but raised in the West, he has worked as a computer scientist and professor of Ukrainian literature and culture at Columbia University. He resides in White Plains, New York.
When I get rich I'll get a pied-a-terre on Yuriy Tarnawsky's planet. It's very wild on the surface and cool and calm in the interior. The palm fronds don't decay. - Andrei Codrescu, author of it was today: new poems ""Tarnawsky's are the second opinions we seek, almost recognize, then do, for they are made of the sounds, power sources, bizarre jobs, people coming our way, fitted together both by us and a culture by turns demanding and uncaring if we sleepwalkers notice or not: alarming, intelligent, caught again and again in the grasp of the author's surprise and yearning."" - Joseph McElroy ""For his great collection, Meningitis, Yuriy Tarnawsky engineered a grammar that drove the compulsions and angst of American middle class deep into the nerves of the reader. These are conditions John Updike is able only to describe and decorate with pretty phrases. In his Three Blondes and Death Tarnawsky peels back the skin of our obsessions to make you feel the pulse of American life that Philip Roth can only discuss through his characters. Tarnawsky is the real artist. Like Blood in Water carries his experiment deeper into the American night, with work that is bright and moving and original. Everyone needs to taste these works of one of our most daring and powerful writers."" - Steve Katz
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