- 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.
- Variant Title
- Babyn I͡Ar, holosamy
- Series
- Harvard library of Ukrainian literature ; 3
Harvard library of Ukrainian literature ; 3.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kii͡anovsʹka, Marianna, author.
- Published
- Cambridge, Massachussetts : Harvard University Press, [2022]
©2022
- Other Authors/Editors
- Barskova, Polina, writer of introduction.
Maksymchuk, Oksana, translator.
Rosochinsky, Max, 1986- translator.
- Notes
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In English and Ukrainian, text on facing pages.
