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Still City - Oksana Maksymchuk

Still City

A Diary of an Invasion
Buch | Softcover
128 Seiten
2024
Carcanet Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80017-402-3 (ISBN)
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The debut English-language collection from a Ukrainian poet reflecting on her experiences of the invasion of her homeland.
Still City, Oksana Maksymchuk's debut in English, reflects life in the wake of extreme and unpredictable violence. Inevitably, there are dramatic shifts in perspective: this diary of an invasion recreates the mood and tone of the context within which a poet's imagination must make sense of the change.

Drawing on various sources, including social media, the news, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, Maksymchuk tells the shared experience. The book began 'as a poetic journal I started keeping in my hometown of Lviv, Ukraine in 2021–22. In the months leading up to the full-scale invasion, my writing has been registering how ways of living, thinking, and feeling have been changing due to the anticipation of a catastrophe, imbuing the everyday rituals with the sense of finality and precarity. While we, as a family and a community, made preparations for air strikes, as well as nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare, our relationships transformed, as did our sense of time, fate, and personhood.'

Oksana Maksymchuk was born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1982. She is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Xenia and Lovy, in the Ukrainian, as well as a co-editor of Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, an anthology of contemporary poetry. Her English-language poems have appeared in The Irish Times, The London Magazine, The Paris Review, Poetry London, PN Review, The Poetry Review and elsewhere. Oksana was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship and a winner of the Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association of America, the Peterson Translated Book Award, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, the Richmond Lattimore Prize, and the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize. She holds a PhD in ancient philosophy from Northwestern University. In recent years, Oksana has been dividing her time between her home in Lviv, the United States, and Europe.

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Sasha Dugdale
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 1-80017-402-0 / 1800174020
ISBN-13 978-1-80017-402-3 / 9781800174023
Zustand Neuware
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