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Still City: Poems: Pitt Poetry Series

Autor Oksana Maksymchuk
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 noi 2024
The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk's debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war affects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822967354
ISBN-10: 0822967359
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 203 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Pitt Poetry Series


Recenzii

"The 20th century established a strong tradition of central and eastern European poetry in English: many of Maksymchuk’s poems suggest that a new generation has begun to participate in this distinguished tradition."
--The Guardian 
“Poet, philosopher, anthologist, translator Oksana Maksymchuk is someone whose work I have known and admired for years, and yet nothing prepared me for her new book, Still City. How can one prepare for war? This is precisely the question this poetry makes memorable music of. There is terrifying restraint in these poems of war wherein realism becomes a song, realism becomes hallucination, realism is a naked nerve set to a tune. Terrifying, yes, but necessary. Still City is an important book.”
—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
 
“In Oksana Maksymchuk’s Still City, war is everywhere. It is impending, it arrives, it swallows, infusing every detail of life, and every act of figurative language that can be used in the service of those details. I am grateful for her radical honesty, for her willingness to take me to her homeland, to its lit display cabinets filled with cakes, its candied pinecones, the lushness of its flowers, its classrooms filled with children, so that I can begin to understand the brutality of its violation. She teaches me that life, it turns out, is as tenacious as war.”
—Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets
 
“We have needed this book of poems for centuries, for generations; a poet who shatters all the quiet retreat like an alarm clock that will never shut off. Forget the front pages of newspapers causing breakfast paralysis; it’s Oksana Maksymchuk we need to tell us, ‘In the dictionary of victims / there's no space / for a hair to fall.’”
—CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
 

Notă biografică

Oksana Maksymchuk was born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1982. She is the author Still City, longlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and Xenia and Lovy, two award-winning poetry collections in Ukrainian. She is also coeditor of Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, an anthology of contemporary poetry. Her English-language poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, PN Review, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Maksymchuk was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship and a winner of the Modern Language Association of America's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, a Peterson Translated Book Award, an American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, a Richmond Lattimore Prize for Poetic Translation, and a Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize. She holds a PhD in ancient philosophy from Northwestern University. In recent years, Maksymchuk has been dividing her time between her home in Lviv and various visiting appointments in the United States and Europe.

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The debut English-language collection from a Ukrainian poet reflecting on her experiences of the invasion of her homeland.