What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems by Zhadan, Serhiy

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

An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural...
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What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems by Zhadan, Serhiy

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

$27.44

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

$27.44
Author: Serhiy Zhadan
Format: Paperback
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."

Author: Serhiy Zhadan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780300223361

About the Author
Serhiy Zhadan, recipient of the 2022 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the 2022 German Peace Prize, is widely considered to be one of the most important young writers in Ukraine. He has received several international literature prizes and has twice won BBC Ukraine's Book of the Year award. His other books include Mesopotamia and The Orphanage. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps are an award-winning translation team who have been translating Ukrainian poetry since 1989.

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