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What We Live For, What We Die For - Selected Poems (Paperback)
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What We Live For, What We Die For - Selected Poems (Paperback)
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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Loot Price R411
Discovery Miles 4 110
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An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine
with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet
devastation "Everyone can find something, if they only look
carefully," reads one of the memorable lines from this first
collection of poems in English by the world-renowned Ukrainian
author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems
feature gutsy portraits of life on wartorn and poverty-ravaged
streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, where
mothers live with low expectations, and where romance lives like a
remote memory. In the tradition of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, and
William S. Burroughs, Zhadan creates a new poetics of loss, a daily
crusade of testimonial, a final witness of abandoned lives in a
claustrophobic universe where "every year there's less and less
air." Yet despite the grimness of these portraits, Zhadan's poems
are familiar and enchanting, lit by the magic of everyday detail,
leaving readers with a sense of hope, knowing that the will of a
people "will never let it be / like it was before."
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