Set Change by John Hennessy, Yuri Andrukhovych and translated by Ostap Kin

This is poetry from Ukraine.

Set Change by John Hennessy, Yuri Andrukhovych translated by Ostap Kin is published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. This is a Book originally written in Ukrainian. This was published in 2024.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781681378848E12.

Set Change, by Yuri Andrukhovych with John Hennessy and translated by Ostap Kin, should be treated as a collaborative or multi-author Ukrainian entry rather than a simple single-author collection. The theatrical title is useful. A set change is what happens between scenes, while the audience waits in partial darkness. That feels right for poetry shaped by cultural transition, performance, history, and the instability of public life. Published by New York Review Books, the book likely invites readers to think about poetry as staging: voices entering, props rearranged, countries and selves appearing under new light. For the library, it widens Ukrainian poetry beyond solemn witness alone and makes room for experiment, irony, collaboration, and dramatic intelligence.

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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