Bohdan Rubchak

Bohdan Rubchak, born 1935 in Kalush, Galicia, was a poet and a literary scholar. In 1948, after being displaced by the Second World War, Rubchak settled in the United States. He studied comparative literature at Rutgers University in New Jersey (Ph.D., 1977) and between 1974 and 2005 was a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. A member of the New York Group, Rubchak published five collections of poetry: Kaminnyi sad (Stone Orchard, 1956), Promenysta zrada (Bright Betrayal, 1960), Divchyni bez krainy (For a Girl without a Country, 1963), Osobysta Klio (Personal Clio, 1967), and Marenu topyty (To Drown Marena, 1980) and a volume of collected works, Krylo Ikarove (The Wing of Icarus, 1983). -- Columbia University Library