Bibliograph

The voices of Babyn Yar, Babyn I͡Ar, holosamy, Marianna Kiyanovska ; introduction by Polina Barskova ; translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky

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The voices of Babyn Yar, Babyn I͡Ar, holosamy, Marianna Kiyanovska ; introduction by Polina Barskova ; translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The voices of Babyn Yar

Oclc number

1266219022

Responsibility statement

Marianna Kiyanovska ; introduction by Polina Barskova ; translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky

Series statement

Harvard library of Ukrainian literature, 3

Sub title

Babyn I͡Ar, holosamy

Summary

With The Voices of Babyn Yar -- a collection of stirring poems by Marianna Kiyanovska -- the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival by projecting their own imagined voices. Artful and carefully intoned, the poems convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv's Babyn Yar from a first-person perspective to an effect that is simultaneously immersive and estranging. While conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable

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Babyn I͡Ar, holosamy

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