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Food for the Dead

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight

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Description:*WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARD*This searingly powerful first collection about Ukraine identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant counter-song against totalitarianismFood for the Dead gives the current war in Ukraine some much-needed human focus, while examining its brutal aggression within the true historical context.Central to this book is 'a timeline of hunger', a lyric sequence which examines the legacy of the Holodomor ('death by hunger' in Ukrainian), Stalin's man-made famine of the 1930s. This long poem opens in Kyiv in 2021 - 'brief visitations/of appetite/I devour/beetroot/its juices/running/ down my lips/blood/of the past' - and closes in Donetsk in 1929: 'we burst the balloon/skin of tomatoes/between our teeth/seeds running down chins/like confetti/& we already know/every meal/should be celebrated.' Through the poet's sensitive approach to the historical, moving from that genocide of the early thirties, then on through World War II, the Chornobyl disaster, to modern-day invaded Ukraine, we understand that within their 'bones Holodomor/lives on'.Both a howl of anguish and an eloquent counter-song against totalitarianism, this is a book about invasion, war, destruction and death, but also about the bonds of family, human lives and a history of oppression - about staying alive while always hungry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Food for the Dead. To get started finding Food for the Dead, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 80

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ISBN: 1529923344

Description: *WINNER OF AN ERIC GREGORY AWARD*This searingly powerful first collection about Ukraine identity is a howl of anguish and an elegant counter-song against totalitarianismFood for the Dead gives the current war in Ukraine some much-needed human focus, while examining its brutal aggression within the true historical context.Central to this book is 'a timeline of hunger', a lyric sequence which examines the legacy of the Holodomor ('death by hunger' in Ukrainian), Stalin's man-made famine of the 1930s. This long poem opens in Kyiv in 2021 - 'brief visitations/of appetite/I devour/beetroot/its juices/running/ down my lips/blood/of the past' - and closes in Donetsk in 1929: 'we burst the balloon/skin of tomatoes/between our teeth/seeds running down chins/like confetti/& we already know/every meal/should be celebrated.' Through the poet's sensitive approach to the historical, moving from that genocide of the early thirties, then on through World War II, the Chornobyl disaster, to modern-day invaded Ukraine, we understand that within their 'bones Holodomor/lives on'.Both a howl of anguish and an eloquent counter-song against totalitarianism, this is a book about invasion, war, destruction and death, but also about the bonds of family, human lives and a history of oppression - about staying alive while always hungry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Food for the Dead. To get started finding Food for the Dead, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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