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• In the hospital rooms of my country / Lesyk Panasiuk
• Our faces, tossed about this land / Lesyk Panasiuk
• She dreamed of a humanitarian convoy /
• In a country where everyone's name is fear / Lyudmyla Khersonska
• Keeping house / Lyudmyla Khersonska
• They printed in the medical history / Boris Khersonsky
• Explosions are the new normal / Boris Khersonsky
• People carry explosives around the city / Boris Khersonsky
• "Take only what is most important" / Serhiy Zhadan
• "...not to wake her up" / Serhiy Zhadan
• Funeral services / Lyuba Yakimchuk
• with each passing day of war / Halyna Kruk
• war / Halyna Kruk
• [eastern europe is a pit of death and decaying plums] / Oksana Lutsyshyna
• [he asks, don't help me] / Oksana Lutsyshyna
• He writes / Kateryna Kalytko
• [Less than a day before the beginning of the war] / Kateryna Kalytko
• 1918 / Ostap Slyvynsky
• Limbo / Ostap Slyvynsky
• [Between hate & love] / Ostap Slyvynsky

• Hotel Central / Natalka Bilotserkivets
• We'll not die in Paris / Natalka Bilotserkivets
• A definition of poetry / Oksana Zabuzhko
• pray to the empty wells / Iryna Shuvalova
• "in the 'war' mode" / Ekaterina Derisheva
• Houses discuss / Ekaterina Derisheva
• Guess who was my guest / Yuri Andrukhovych
• Song 352 / Oleh Lysheha
• Song 551 / Oleh Lysheha
• [we swallowed the air like earth] / Marianna Kiyanovska
• when you clean your weapon / Borys Humenyuk
• Sniper / Aleksandr Kabanov
• My God spends all night / Marjana Savka
• Here lies the Lord. Slain in a coffin / Marjana Savka
• [Take immortality, God, but give] / Dmitry Bliznyk
• Flying head / Viktor Neborak
• the men of my country / Andriy Bondar
• from Refugees / Iya Kiva
• The labyrinth / Iya Kiva
• What's rattling inthe bag? / Yulia Musakovska
• The vow / Yulia Musakovska
• Such love / Yulia Musakovska
• trees are budding with war / Alex Averbuch
• when you finally make it / Alex Averbuch
• how do you return to a town which does not exist / Alex Averbuch
• Make love / Yurii Izdryk
• New song of silence / Anastasia Afanasieva.

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Contributors:

Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977- , editor, writer of introduction

Forché, Carolyn , editor, writer of introduction

Thomas, Donald, 1943- , donor

Arrowsmith Press , publisher

Languages:

English
Ukrainian

Language Notes:

Poems in English translated chiefly from Ukrainian by various translators.

Related Series:

Arrowsmith; #50

Donald Thomas War Poetry Collection

Special Collections donation

Subjects:

War poetry, Ukrainian — Translations into English

Ukrainian poetry — 21st century — Translations into English

Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022 — Poetry

Genres:

War poetry

Poetry

General Notes:

"Editors": page [94]; "Poets": pages [95]-[98]; "Translators": pages [99]-[103].
Gift; Donald Thomas; 2023.
Perfect bound trade publication with cover illustrations.
"Donald Thomas 2023" inscribed on front paste-down in ink.

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, v pages, 1 unnumbered page, 19-92 pages, 22 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

PG3986.E3 I55 2023

ISBNs:

9798986340180 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

1377285117