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What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems

What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems

Tkacz, Virlana
Zhadan, Serhiy
Phipps, Wanda

Paperback

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0300223366
ISBN13: 9780300223361
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Apr 16 2019
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation

This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan's poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinching witness to the turbulent social and political travails of his nation. With an acerbic tone that will seem familiar to admirers of Franz Wright or Charles Bukowski, Zhadan's no-nonsense verses are sure to strike more than a few nerves.--World Literature Today

A startling collection of verse.--Askold Melnyczuk, Times Literary Supplement

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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