Babyn Yar - Ukrainian Poets Respond

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in English translation, the poems create a language capable of portraying the suffering and destruction of the Ukrainian Jewish population during the Holocaust as well as other peoples murdered at the site.

About the author

Ostap Kin is the translator and editor of the anthology New York Elegies, which won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies’ Prize for Best Translation, and is the cotranslator of Serhiy Zhadan’s A New Orthography and Yuri Andrukhovych’s Songs for a Dead Rooster. He is Research Center Coordinator at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.John Hennessy is the author of two poetry collections, Coney Island Pilgrims and Bridge and Tunnel. He is the poetry editor of The Common and is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. With Ostap Kin, Hennessy translated Serhiy Zhadan’s collection A New Orthography, for which they won the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation.

Summary

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in English translation, the poems create a language capable of portraying the suffering and destruction of the Ukrainian Jewish population during the Holocaust as well as other peoples murdered at the site.

Product details

• Assisted by: John Hennessy (Translation), Ostap Kin (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780674271692
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27169-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Lierature; Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ukraine, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Second World War, The Holocaust, Literature: history & criticism, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Literary studies: poetry and poets, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / War, POETRY / European / Eastern, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet