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 searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, 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.   With a foreword by the poet Ilya Kaminsky, this selection of Zhadan’s poetry, forged entirely in wartime, 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.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	Serhiy Zhadan
Translators:	Virlana Tkacz • Wanda Phipps
Foreword by:	Ilya Kaminsky
Dimensions:	197 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-27246-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-300-27246-4
Barcode:	9780300272468

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