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Dovenrepubliek
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ISBN: 9789490687212 Year: 2011 Publisher: Maastricht/Amsterdam : Azulpress,

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Ilya Kaminsky werd in 1977 geboren in het toen door de Sovjet-Unie gecontroleerde Odessa. Een verkeerde diagnose van een arts maakte dat zijn toenemende doofheid niet werd opgemerkt en pas nadat zijn familie in 1993 naar de Verenigde Staten emigreerde, kon er worden ingegrepen en kreeg hij de nodige gehoorapparaten die hij nodig had. Deze biografische omstandigheid maakt begrijpelijk dat Kaminsky in zijn poezie geregeld refereert aan horen en doof zijn. Met zijn tweede bundel Deaf Republic presenteert hij een lange, verhalende reeks gedichten over de fictieve stad Vasenka, waar, nadat een jonge dove jongen is vermoord door bezettende soldaten, de hele stad stilte boven spreken verkiest en doofheid boven horen. In Deaf Republic is horen een verplichting, en doofheid is zowel een troef als een uitdaging, wat leidt tot de uitdagende verklaring dat 'doven niet in stilte geloven. Stilte is de uitvinding van de horenden.' (Poeziekrant maart/april 2022)

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Paper Bridge
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ISBN: 9781951508258 1951508254 Year: 2022 Publisher: Washington

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Paper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno, a “master of the contemporary Ukrainian Ballad, who builds a lifeline for the broken-hearted wanderers, homeless heartbreakers, hopeless romantics, and helpful ironists,” in the words of Valzhyna Mort, winner of the Griffin Poetry prize. Makhno’s bridge extends to us all, serving whatever purpose we need it to, as Lidijia Dimkovska, author of A Spare Life, writes, “it is a bridge that can burn or resist… but it is a witness to the existence of a traveler through souls, bodies, and spirits, through our own subconsciousness.” With this outstanding collection of poems, Makhno is able to preserve an “enviable spiritual equilibrium…one that grinds out the music even in the toughest of days, a music that survived the twentieth century and keeps alive in the new horrors of the twenty-first,” in the words of Los Angeles Book Prize winner Ilya Kaminsky, “and now despite it all, even in his room in New York City away from Ukraine, [Makhno] can still hear how ‘old age sings’ how it ‘nervously forces the music into a rhythm,” and how ‘it might falter, but it plays again.’”


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Words for war
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ISBN: 9781618116673 1618116673 9781618116680 1618116681 9781618116666 1618116665 1618118617 Year: 2017 Publisher: Boston, MA

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The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. In addressing these themes, the poems also raise questions about art, politics, citizenship, and moral responsibility. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine. Young and old, female and male, somber and ironic, tragic and playful, filled with extraordinary terror and ordinary human delights, the voices recreate the human sounds of war in its tragic complexity.


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How Fire Descends : New and Selected Poems
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ISBN: 0300274637 Year: 2023 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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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 searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, 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. With a foreword by the poet Ilya Kaminsky, this selection of Zhadan's poetry, forged entirely in wartime, 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.

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Russian poetry.

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