| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 57 pages) |
| Series |
Crab Orchard series in poetry |
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Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Contents |
Finding the Old Family Farm -- Ukraine -- In the Absence of Clocks -- Crimea, an Unexpected Freeze -- On the Holiday for the Dead -- Graduation Day -- The Dogs -- Childhoods -- The New Clock Tower -- Secret Police -- Babushka Baba Yaga -- North Toward Kiev -- To Ukraine -- Mapping the Republics of the Dead -- Far South, an Unexpected Heat -- The Danger in Leaving Her -- Under the River Named God -- Dear Father, -- Bread -- Mountain Answers -- Remains -- A Crumbling Shroud Covers Reactor Number 4 -- Some Pilgrimage -- Orange Revolution -- Kiev -- Revolution Comes to Kiev, Masha Comes to Kiev -- Listening Device -- Monument -- The Orange Revolution -- Masha in the Afternoon -- Remember -- Countrymen -- Sex and the Orange Revolution -- Baptism of Kiev -- Revolution -- Boundary Waters -- Masha Back Home -- Her Mother, Somehow Surprised -- A New Economy, the Old Currency -- Her Village, Once Starved until All the Animals and All the Bullets Were Gone -- Ghost Sick -- Violin and Sea -- Untitled -- Her Hair, Twin Braids of Dark Clove, -- Paradise -- Come Back -- What I Saw -- Finding the Old Family Farm II -- Summer |
| Summary |
The poet takes readers on a voyage through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political corruption and public outrage, these lyrics of a revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and familiar. Throughout the collection are the iconic images and myriad juxtapositions of Ukrainian life: wolves howling in the snow and bakers pounding early-morning loaves of bread; farmlands and cities alike rocked by political transformation; gypsies and protesters; opulent images of Byzantium and the concrete ghosts of Chernobyl - all meet here at the crossroads of East and West, democracy and communism, reality and mythology |
| Subject |
Ukrainians -- Social life and customs -- Poetry
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FICTION -- General.
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Ukrainians -- Social life and customs
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012011123 |
| ISBN |
9780809331048 |
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0809331047 |
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1283805944 |
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9781283805940 |
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