Letters of the Alphabet Go to War by Panasiuk, Lesyk
Letters of the Alphabet Go to War by Panasiuk, Lesyk

Letters of the Alphabet Go to War

A bilingual poetry collection translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Letters of the...
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Author: Lesyk Panasiuk
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $35.90
Letters of the Alphabet Go to War by Panasiuk, Lesyk

Letters of the Alphabet Go to War

$64.99 $35.90
Letters of the Alphabet Go to War by Panasiuk, Lesyk

Letters of the Alphabet Go to War

$64.99 $35.90
Author: Lesyk Panasiuk
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A bilingual poetry collection translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Letters of the Alphabet Go to War is Lesyk Panasiuk's remarkable account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, during the apex of war and brutality at the hands of the Russian military. The result is a tremendous work that The Guardian describes as embodying "the idea of the rupture of language through the physical collapse of signs and lettering on buildings hit by missiles." This slim book bears great weight.

Author: Lesyk Panasiuk
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 01/20/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781956046670

About the Author

Lesyk Panasiuk is the author of three collections of poetry. His poetry has been translated into 24 languages, published in Ukrainian and foreign magazines and anthologies, set to music, and used within theater productions, performances and exhibitions worldwide. Panasiuk has been a fellow of the Stipend of President of Ukraine (Ukraine, 2019), International Writers' and Translators' House (Ventspils, Latvia, 2019), House of Europe (Ukraine, 2019), Staromiejski Dom Kultury (Poland, 2021), Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society (USA, 2022), Dartmouth College (USA, 2022), Literary Colloquium Berlin (Germany, 2022), and PEN Ukraine (Ukraine, 2023).


Katie Farris is the author of the memoir-in-poems, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), which was listed as one of Publishers Weekly's "Top 10 Poetry Books for 2023." Most recently she was the winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the co-translator of several books of poetry from the Ukrainian, French, Chinese, and Russian.


Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press) and Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press) and co-editor and co-translator of many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins) and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books). His work won The Los Angeles Times Book Award, among other honors.


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