How Fire Descends

New and Selected Poems

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Serhiy Zhadan

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Series:

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

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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 new selection of poems, forged entirely in wartime, 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. This selection of Zhadan’s poetry, written between 2014 and 2022, includes approximately forty poems from Zhadan’s collections published in Ukrainian, as well as eight new poems published online. With a foreword by the poet Ilya Kaminsky, this book 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.

Author Biography:

Serhiy Zhadan (b. 1974) is one of Ukraine’s most celebrated writers. He has received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and several international literature prizes. His books include Sky Above Kharkiv; Mesopotamia; The Orphanage; and What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems. He lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps have been translating Zhadan’s poetry since 2002. Ilya Kaminsky is an award-winning poet from Odesa, Ukraine, and the author of Deaf Republic.

Release date Australia

January 9th, 2024

Author

Serhiy Zhadan

Series

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Contributors

Foreword by Ilya Kaminsky
Translated by Virlana Tkacz
Translated by Wanda Phipps

Pages

136

Audience

Professional & Vocational

ISBN-13

9780300272468

Product ID

36604553

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