Call me a genius

Yury Gumianyuk is a poet from Horaden through and through. And not only because the figurative-motive paradigm of his works absorbed the sounds, colors, and even smells of this unique European city. All other levels of the artistic and creative space of Gumeniauk’s texts also live according to the literary laws dictated by Horodnya. And this is what she dictates: 1) literature is not a game; 2) literature is not war; 3) literature is not a business. That is why every line written by Humianyuk’s hand loudly testifies that it was not a player-versifier, not a warrior-ideologist, not a writer-manager, but a demiurge who called them out of nowhere. (Introduction, Anatoly Brusevich, fragment)