 Vasyl Barka was close to the New York group of Ukrainian poets.Barka's orphic works require intuitive rather than logical comprehension.His poetry developed and grew in stature, from the early lyrical collections to the monumental 4,000-strophe epic novel in verse "Svidok dlia sontsia shestykrylykh" (The Witness for the Sun of Seraphims, 1981), addressed to the theme of reconciliation between 'man and the Creator.'