Roman Pyrih is a Ukrainian poet born in 1977. Roman says: "Yurai is Ukrainian poet-palindromist, diplomat and humble student of ancient knowledge. "His experiments with palindromes were inspired and heavily based on Ukrainian palindrome tradition dating back to the texts of mystic Kyiv poet of the XVII century Ivan Velychkovskyi , who is also considered grand contributor to the development of Ukrainian visual poetry. In XX century Ukrainian palindrome was greatly invigorated and brought to a new level by outstanding efforts of renowned masters -- Ivan Iov, Ivan Luchuk, Nazar Gonchar and others. "What distinguishes Yurai's creations is that he gradually departed from palindrome as a text and visualized it as a graphic artwork. This was a natural drift, manifested at first as side effect of illustrating palindrome poems, and gradually evolved into self-sufficient art. This mirroring fusion of symbol, meaning and their graphic interpretation is aimed to complete restless sensory quest of perception and perfection, and is to point to the reality outside, beyond and trance all the imperfectness, which can not be fully expressed by any means of common art, except those of religious nature." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.