Intro -- Preliminary Remarks -- Life after Death: Reburial and Struggle for Heritage (Year 1989) -- Vasyl Stus' Ancestry and Childhood -- The Poet's Youth -- Meetings and Leave-Takings (1961-1963) -- The Bastion of Your Own Self (1963-1965) -- "And All That Is Like the Gifts of the Lord" (1966-1972) -- "Creativity Time / Dichterzeit" -- Epilogue: A Chronicle of Resistance