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  2. Duma (epic) - Wikipedia

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    A Duma (Ukrainian: дума, plural dumy) is a oral epic poem which originated in Ukraine during the Hetmanate Era in the sixteenth century, possibly based on earlier Kyivan epic forms.

  3. Tomaž Šalamun - Wikipedia

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    In 1964, as editor of the literary magazine Perspektive, he published his iconoclastic poem "Duma '64" (Thought '64). When Ivan Maček, a Titoist hard-liner, saw the dead cat in the poem as a reference to himself (the Slovene word maček means 'cat'), Perspektive was banned and Šalamun was arrested. [8]

  4. Keorapetse Kgositsile - Wikipedia

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    During the 1970s he was a central figure among African-American poets, encouraging interest in Africa as well as the practice of poetry as a performance art; he was well known for his readings in New York City jazz clubs. Kgositsile was one of the first to bridge the gap between African poetry and African-American poetry in the United States.

  5. Dama Dam Mast Qalandar - Wikipedia

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    The poem includes a reference to the town of Sehwan, and the word "Lal" can refer to Lal Shahbaz Qalandar as a young man, his legendary ruby glow, or his red dress. [2] Bulleh Shah gave an entirely different color to the qawwali, adding verses in praises of Shahbaz Qalandar and giving it a large tint of Sindhi culture.

  6. Symon Petliura - Wikipedia

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    These revolts were brutally pacified by the Soviet administration. The blind kobzars Pavlo Hashchenko and Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko composed a duma (epic poem) in memory of Symon Petliura. To date Petliura is the only modern Ukrainian politician to have a duma created and sung in his memory.

  7. Gennady Rakitin - Wikipedia

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    In June 2024, after finally giving up on Russian authorities getting the message, the Russian exiles revealed that Gennady Rakitin was a hoax and the Z poems were translated from old Nazi poems. [1] According to the participants, this hoax was created to debunk Putin's claim of anti-Nazism in Russian invasion of Ukraine and showcase ...

  8. Opera in Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    [131] [132] Vasily Zolotarev, with his one-act work Hvesko Andiber (1927), became the first operatic composer to feature the duma (a sung epic poem) and write about the life of the Cossacks. Yanovskyi involved similar topics on a larger scale in his opera The Black Sea Duma (1928), set during the Turkish occupation of the land of Cossacks.

  9. Maria Bohuslavka - Wikipedia

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    The duma tells how she earned the trust of her husband and gained access to the keys of the palace, including the prison. She used them to free a group of Ukrainian Cossacks who had been imprisoned for 30 years. However, she did not flee with them but remained in the harem since this was now the only life she knew.