In the fascinating collection of poems, In the Absence of Clocks,
poet Jacob Shores-Arguello takes readers on an illuminating voyage
through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange
Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political
corruption and public outrage, Shores-Arguello's lyrics of a
revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and
familiar. Throughout the collection are the iconic images and
myriad juxtapositions of Ukrainian life. wolves howling in the snow
and bakers pounding early-morning loaves of bread; farmlands and
cities alike rocked by political transformation; gypsies and
protesters; opulent images of Byzantium and the concrete ghosts of
Chernobyl--all meet here at the crossroads of East and West,
democracy and communism, reality and mythology. As the narrator
travels across the Ukraine, he does much more than cross the
distances between Horlivka and Odessa or Kiev and the Black Sea. As
the tides of change swirl around him, they mirror his own search
for a cultural identity and history.
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