Food for the Dead (eBook)

Beautiful and necessary Ilya Kaminsky

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
80 Seiten
Vintage Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5299-2334-6 (ISBN)

Infos

**WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARD***SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 FORWARD PRIZE - FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*This searingly powerful first collection about Ukrainian identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant counter-song against totalitarianism'A beautiful, necessary book'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic'Every poem is a masterpiece'OLIA HERCULES, author of MamushkaWith this searingly powerful first collection, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight gives the current war in Ukraine some much-needed human focus, while examining its brutal aggression within a wider and more accurate historical context.Central to this book is a timeline of hunger , a lyric sequence which examines the legacy of the Holodomor ( death by hunger in Ukrainian) Stalin s man-made famine of the 1930s. This long poem opens in Kyiv in 2021 brief visitations / of appetite / I devour / beetroot / its juices / running / down my lips / blood / of the past and closes in Donetsk in 1929: we burst the balloon / skin of tomatoes / between our teeth / seeds running down chins / like confetti / & we already know / every meal / should be celebrated. Through the poet s sensitive approach to the historical, moving from that genocide of the early 1930s, then on through the Second World War, the Chornobyl disaster, to modern-day invaded Ukraine, we understand that within their bones Holodomor / lives on .Both a howl of anguish and an eloquent counter-song against totalitarianism, this is a book about invasion, war, destruction and death, but also about the bonds of humanity, family and a history of oppression about staying alive while always hungry.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-5299-2334-4 / 1529923344
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5299-2334-6 / 9781529923346