Description

Larysa Hienijuš’s poetry collection *Spiritus flat ubi vult* (“The Spirit Blows Where It Wills”) brings the poet’s voice back to life, revived after decades thanks to the manuscripts of poems she collected and transcribed in the early postwar years.

Today we are publishing a facsimile of this manuscript; we read it and reflect on it in the 21st century—an era very similar to the one in which Larisa Henyusz wrote her verses and bound the pages into a slim book.

The poems, written in exile between 1945 and 1947, constitute a painful and sublime hymn in honor of the homeland and loved ones, a poetic chronicle of national catastrophe and personal loss, as well as a vivid testimony to the poet’s free and unyielding spirit. It also marks the beginning of postwar samizdat and tamizdat in the Belarusian language.

Published by “Skarina Press,” 2026. Paperback, 192 pages.

About the Collection

Table of Contents

Taćciana Astroŭskaja. Larysa Hienijuš and the History of Belarusian Samizdat

Arnold McMillin. Preface to the First Edition

Janina Laŭnik. Foreword to the Second Edition

Spiritus flat ubi vult

A Piece of Heaven

A Breeze

Strange Pines

An Autumn Day

A Miracle

Waves Crash

It’s Not Time Yet…

At the Strange Gates

God…

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