Food For The Dead: ‘Beautiful And Necessary’ Ilya Kaminsky Charlotte Shevchenko Knight Jonathan Cape Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Poetry

**Winner Of An Eric Gregory Award***Shortlisted For The 2024 Forward Prize - Felix Dennis Best First Collection*This Searingly Powerful Collection About Ukrainian Identity Is A Howl Anguish And Elegant Counter-Song Against Totalitarianism\ Beautiful Necessary Book\ Ilya Kaminsky Author Deaf Republic\ Every Poem Masterpiece\ Olia Hercules Mamushkawith This Charlotte Shevchenko Knight Gives Current War In Ukraine Some Much-Needed Human Focus While Examining Its Brutal Aggression Within Wider More Accurate Historical Context Central To Book ‘A Timeline Hunger’ Lyric Sequence Which Examines Legacy Holodomor (‘Death By Ukrainian) – Stalin’s Man-Made Famine 1930S Long Opens Kyiv 2021 ‘Brief Visitations Appetite I Devour Beetroot Juices Running Down My Lips Blood Past’ Closes Donetsk 1929: ‘We Burst Balloon Skin Tomatoes Between Our Teeth Seeds Chins Like Confetti We Already Know Meal Should Be Celebrated ’ Through Poet’s Sensitive Approach Moving From That Genocide Early Then On Second World Chornobyl Disaster Modern-Day Invaded Understand Their ‘Bones Lives On’ Both Eloquent Totalitarianism Invasion Destruction Death But Also Bonds Humanity Family History Oppression Staying Alive Always Hungry Σελίδες: 80 Διαστάσεις: 13 1X13 1Cm