How Fire Descends. New And Selected Poems
How Fire Descends. New And Selected Poems
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Author
Author
Sergey Zhadan / Сергей Жадан
Dimension
Dimension
152x197mm (6'x7,8')
ISBN
ISBN
9780300272468
Format
Format
Paperback
Language
Language
English
Page Count
Page Count
136
Publisher
Publisher
Yale University Press
Year of book publication
Year of book publication
2024
How Fire Descends. New And Selected Poems
A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan.
Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan has brought international attention to his country's struggle through his unflinching poetry of witness. In this new selection of poems, forged entirely in wartime, Zhadan honors the memory of the lost and addresses the living, inviting us to consider what language can offer to a country threatened with extinction. Young lovers, marginalized outsiders, and ordinary citizens pulse with life in a composite portrait of a people newly unified by extremity. Even in the midst of enemy fire, Zhadan's lyrical monuments beat with a subterranean thrum of hope.
This selection of Zhadan's poetry, written between 2014 and 2022, includes approximately forty poems from Zhadan's collections published in Ukrainian, as well as eight new poems published online. With a foreword by the poet Ilya Kaminsky, this book is an homage to the Ukrainian people, a forceful reckoning with the violence of the past and present, and an act of artistic imagination that breaks with trauma and charts a new future for Ukraine.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author:Sergey Zhadan - Сергей Жадан
Publisher:Yale University Press
Language:English
Publication Date:2024
Number of pages:136 pst
Format:Paperback
Width:152 mm / 6'
Height:197 mm / 7,8'
Weight:190 g
ISBN:9780300272468