Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Babyn Yar : Ukrainian Poets Respond - Ostap Kin

Babyn Yar

Ukrainian Poets Respond

By: Ostap Kin (Editor), John Hennessy (Translator)

Hardcover | 30 May 2023 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Hardcover


$83.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $20.94 with

 or 

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

In 2021, the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the massacres of Jews at Babyn Yar. The present collection brings together for the first time the responses to the tragic events of September 1941 by Ukrainian Jewish and non-Jewish poets of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, presented here in the original and in English translation by Ostap Kin and John Hennessy. Written between 1942 and 2017 by over twenty poets, these poems belong to different literary canons, traditions, and time frames, while their authors come from several generations. Together, the poems in Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond 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.
Industry Reviews
Remind[s] the reading public of not only the necessity of remembering history and taking a stand against evil, but also about the necessity of poetry as witness during a time of great atrocity. -- Nicole Yurcaba * New Eastern Europe *
A welcome addition to the library [of] Ukrainian literature, history, and modern society. While its primary audience is scholars of Ukrainian and Slavic literatures, it is also highly relevant to anyone seeking to understand the Holocaust and World War II, as well as the existential problem of extreme human cruelty, such as that observed in Ukraine at present. -- Martin Paulsen * Ab Imperio *
Kin's is the first and only collection to date to focus exclusively on Ukrainian-language poems...the inclusion of poems from distinct literary traditions and historical epochs offers valuable avenues towards our understanding of this complex topic. By bringing these horrendous events into the public eye, the poems' heartbreaking insights thus offer reflections on the massacre and its ongoing significance, an act of memorialization within a changing political landscape in which an unresolved past remains. -- Hazel Frankel * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
Temporally and stylistically expansive, Babyn Yar keeps company with other recent poetry that confronts the costs of war and genocide: Solmaz Sharif's Look, Monica Sok's A Nail the Evening Hangs On, and Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic. Each poetic work catalogs grief intimately in the aftermath of political violence. That the Russia-Ukraine War is ongoing at the time of this writing infuses the anthology with a terrible urgency. -- Kathryn Savage * World Literature Today *

More in Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets

The Iliad : Penguin Classics - Homer

RRP $17.99

$16.75

The Epic of Gilgamesh : Penguin Classics - Andrew George

RRP $26.99

$20.75

23%
OFF
What in Me is Dark : The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost - Orlando Reade
The Iliad : Penguin Clothbound Classics - Homer

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
My Year of Reading Welshly : Discovering Wales in 52 Books - Alex Johnson
Shakespeare the Reviser : A Lover's Complaint - Marina Tarlinskaya
Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath

RRP $42.99

$33.99

21%
OFF
Miniatures - Carsten Rene Nielsen

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$33.99

The Collected Poems - Robert Frost

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Selected Poems : Penguin Classics - Jelaluddin Rumi

RRP $17.99

$16.75

The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the Poet Within - Stephen Fry