Description
Book SynopsisBabyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in English translation, the poems 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.
Trade ReviewRemind[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 *
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 *
