Mexican Relative of Mykola Zerov who was perhaps the most talented of
the Neoclassicist movement of poets in 1920's Ukraine. Despite the
populist and propagandistic impulses of Communism, the neoclassical
movement stressed the production of 'high art' to an educated and
highly literate audience. Zerov, particularly, eschewed contemporary
politics in his poetry, focusing on aesthetic and historical classical
themes under a tight and difficult poetical structure. This approach
eventually proved fatal, as Zerov, along with many other Ukrainian
writers of the period, was later sent to Soviet concentration camps and
killed.