Book record
In the Hour of War
Anthology
Translated from Ukrainian by Carolyn Forché, Ilya Kaminsky, Various
In the Hour of War is an anthology of Ukrainian poetry, translated by Carolyn Forché, Ilya Kaminsky, Various, published by Arrowsmith Press in 2023. It is an anthology of Ukrainian poetry gathered under the immediate pressure of war. As an anthology, it matters as witness and chorus, giving English-language readers not a single official feeling but many ways a language responds when survival becomes daily work. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Ukraine; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2023
- Publisher
- Arrowsmith Press
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Country
- Ukraine
- ISBN
- 9798986340180