Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow brings together a selection of Natalka Bilotserkivets?s poetry from the last four decades. Having established an English-language following largely on the merits of a single poem, Bilotserkivets?s larger body of work continues to be relatively unknown. She was an active participant in ?Ukraine?s Renaissance? of the late-Soviet and early-independence period. Now, nearly thirty years on, much has changed in her birth land, but the lyricism and urgency in Bilotserkivets?s poetry remain; her voice still speaks about movement and restricted movement, even symbolic movement. Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow endeavors to return to shed light on the missing history.