Zhadan, Serhiy
How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780300272468
- author:
- Zhadan, Serhiy
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Yale University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 136
- Dimensions:
- 19.7 x 15.2 centimetres
- Genre:
- Russian & Former Soviet Union Poetry
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
How Fire Descends is a powerful and unflinching collection of poetry from Ukrainian writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan. Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, Zhadan has brought international attention to his country's struggle through his poetry, which offers a searing testament to the power of language to define and defy injustice.
This selection of Zhadan's poetry is a composite portrait of a people newly unified by extremity, where young lovers, marginalized outsiders, and ordinary citizens pulse with life. Even in the midst of enemy fire, Zhadan's lyrical monuments beat with a subterranean thrum of hope, forging a new future for Ukraine.
Translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, and with a foreword by poet Ilya Kaminsky, this collection 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.
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