Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
Food for the Dead Paperback Book
WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 FORWARD PRIZE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONThis searingly powerful first collection about Ukrainian identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant countersong against totalitarianismA beautiful, necessary bookILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicEvery poem is a masterpieceOLIA HERCULES, author of MamushkaWith this searingly powerful first collection, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight gives the current war in Ukraine some muchneeded 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) Stalins manmade 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 poets sensitive approach to the historical, moving from that genocide of the early 1930s, then on through the Second World War, the Chornobyl disaster, to modernday invaded Ukraine, we understand that within their bones Holodomor / lives on.Both a howl of anguish and an eloquent countersong against totalitarianism, this is a book about invasion, war, destruction...
Binding: Paperback;80 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: DCF; Weight: 222 g; Dimensions: 196 x 131 x 7
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WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 FORWARD PRIZE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONThis searingly powerful first collection about Ukrainian identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant countersong against totalitarianismA beautiful, necessary bookILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicEvery poem is a masterpieceOLIA HERCULES, author of MamushkaWith this searingly powerful first collection, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight gives the current war in Ukraine some muchneeded 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) Stalins manmade 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 poets sensitive approach to the historical, moving from that genocide of the early 1930s, then on through the Second World War, the Chornobyl disaster, to modernday invaded Ukraine, we understand that within their bones Holodomor / lives on.Both a howl of anguish and an eloquent countersong against totalitarianism, this is a book about invasion, war, destruction...
Binding: Paperback;80 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: DCF; Weight: 222 g; Dimensions: 196 x 131 x 7
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