Book record
Field of Foundlings
Iryna Starovoyt
Translated from Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney
Iryna Starovoyt’s Field of Foundlings, translated from Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney, has a title that feels immediately vulnerable. A field can be pastoral, historical, abandoned, or full of bodies. A foundling is both rescued and bereft. The poems seem to ask how belonging begins when origin has been broken. As a contemporary Ukrainian entry from Lost Horse Press, the book likely carries the pressures of history, memory, and aftermath, but its force should not be flattened into a news category. Poetry works differently. It lets loss enter through image, silence, family, landscape, and voice. This is a book I would recommend to readers drawn to poems that understand survival as something tender, provisional, and unfinished.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Lost Horse Press
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Country
- Ukraine
- ISBN
- 9780998196343