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Babyn Yar : Ukrainian poets respond / edited with introduction by Ostap Kin ; translated by John Hennessey and Ostap Kin.

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, [2023]

xviii, 269 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.

"In 2021, the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the massacres of Jews at Babyn Yar. The present collection brings together for the first time the responses to the tragic events of September 1941 by Ukrainian Jewish and non-Jewish poets of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, presented here in the original and in English translation by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin. Written in 1941-2018 by over twenty poets, these poems belong to different literary canons, traditions, and timeframes, while their authors come from several generations. Together, the poems in 'Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond' 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Harvard library of Ukrainian literature ; 4

Ukrainian poetry -- Translations into English.

Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941 -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Kinʹ, Ostap, editor, writer of introduction, translator.

Hennessy, John, 1965- translator.

Ukrainian poets respond

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-263) and indexes.

English translation and original Ukranian text on opposite pages.

Babyn Yar in Ukrainian poetry / Ostap Kin -- Monologue of a monument never built. Monologue of the monument. / Arkadii Anin -- Ravine / Mykolo Bazhan -- For Marianna Kiyanovska - in response to her book The voices of Babyn Yar / Valeriia Bohuslavs'ka -- Michelangelo. The gorgon Medusa. 1941: the Jewish question. / Leonid Cherevatenko -- Tested by tragedy / Borys Dabo-Nikolaiev -- [On June 22, 1966, at five in the afternoon]. A Kyiv legend. / Ivan Drach -- [From that horrible holy time]. [Indian summer in Babyn Yar]. [On the eve of the holy Sabbath]. / Hryhorii Fal'kovych -- Ravine / Moisei Fishbein -- Laughter / Iakiv Hal'perin -- Melnyk Street / Sava Holovanivs'kyi -- [The stones of my brothers and the sky of my sisters]. / Denys Holovanivs'kyi / -- Babyn Yar / Oleska Iushchenko -- To Marta Tarnawsky / Igor Kaczurowsky -- In Babyn Yar. Grandson's monologue. Kyiv. September 19. Babyn Yarn. / Abram Katsnel'son -- [i would die on this street or on the one around the corner]. [i even managed to grow during the war]. [i will say it anyway i will accept it anyway]. [these streets are already ruins maybe not all but already]. [i've been getting together a collection for the last three weeks]. [here is the ravine where hans does his shooting]. / Marianna Kiyanovska -- [Walking near Babyn Yar]. [On the edge of Babyn Yar they raised]. Requiem for Babyn Yar. / Dmytro Pavlychko -- [Resurrect me, future, for a new]. At Babyn Yar. / Leonid Pervomais'kyi -- Babyn Yar / Volodymyr Pidpalyi -- To the Jewish people / Maksym Ryl's'kyi -- Basketball / Iurii Shcherbak -- Babyn Yar / Vasyl' Shvets' -- To the Jewish people. Babyn Yar. / Volodymyr Sosiura -- In my life too there was a Babyn Yar / Marta Tarnawsky -- To the Jewish people / Pavlo Tychyna.

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