Book record
A Field of Foundlings
Iryna Starovoyt
Translated from Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney
A Field of Foundlings, by Iryna Starovoyt, is a poetry collection from Ukraine, translated by Grace Mahoney, published by Lost Horse Press. It is a Ukrainian collection by Iryna Starovoyt where abandonment, recovery, field, and memory form a charged landscape. The title gives the poems a difficult tenderness: foundlings are vulnerable, but finding is also an act of witness. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Ukraine. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Lost Horse Press
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Country
- Ukraine