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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: John Hennessy (Traduzione), Ostap Kin (Editore e traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 28.02.2022
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9780674275591
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27559-1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Serie: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Categorie: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Poetry anthologies (various poets), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POETRY / Russian & Soviet, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / War, POETRY / European / Eastern, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet