Field of Foundlings by Iryna Starovoyt and translated by Grace Mahoney

This is poetry from Ukraine.

Field of Foundlings by Iryna Starovoyt translated by Grace Mahoney is published by Lost Horse Press. This is a Book originally written in Ukrainian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780998196343E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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