How Fire Descends - New and Selected Poems

A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan

About the author

Serhiy Zhadan (b. 1974) is one of Ukraine's most celebrated writers. He has received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and several international literature prizes. His books include Sky Above Kharkiv; Mesopotamia; The Orphanage; and What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems. He lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps have been translating Zhadan's poetry since 2002. Ilya Kaminsky is an award-winning poet from Odesa, Ukraine, and the author of Deaf Republic.

Product details

• Authors: Serhiy Zhadan, Zhadan Serhiy
• Assisted by: Ilya Kaminsky (Foreword), Wanda Phipps (Translation), Phipps Wanda (Translation), Virlana Tkacz (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9780300272468
• ISBN: 978-0-300-27246-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Poetry, Literature: history & criticism, POETRY / Russian & Soviet