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Author Z︠H︡adan, Serhiĭ, 1974- author.

Title What we live for, what we die for : selected poems / Serhiy Zhadan ; translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps ; foreword by Bob Holman
Published New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 141 pages)
Series A Margellos world republic of letters book
Margellos world republic of letters book.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- What We Live For, What We Die For -- Why I'm Not on Social Media (2015) -- Life of Maria (2015) -- Ethiopia (2009) -- Maradona (2007) -- UkSSR (2004) -- History of Culture at the Turn of This Century (2003) -- Ballads About War and Reconstruction (2001) -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE ON "THE END OF UKRAINIAN SYLLABOTONIC VERSE" -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Summary An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation "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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Serhiy Zhadan was born in the Luhansk Region of Ukraine and educated in Kharkiv. His previous works include Mesopotamia, and his books have been translated into several languages. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps are an award-winning translation team who have been translating Ukrainian poetry since 1989
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Subject Ukrainian poetry -- 21st century
POETRY -- General.
POETRY -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Manners and customs
Ukrainian poetry
SUBJECT Ukraine -- Social life and customs -- Poetry
Subject Ukraine
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
Author Tkacz, Virlana, 1952- translator.
Phipps, Wanda, translator.
Holman, Bob, 1948- writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780300245547
0300245548