Book record
Smokes
Yuri Izdryk
Translated from Ukrainian by Roman Ivashkiv
Yuri Izdryk’s Smokes, translated from Ukrainian by Roman Ivashkiv, is a book I would describe through drift, obscurity, and afterimage. Smoke is visible, but never stable. It marks fire without being fire, damage without always showing the source. That makes it a rich title for contemporary Ukrainian poetry, where history and interior life may appear in fragments, vapors, and sudden stings of perception. Published by Lost Horse Press, the collection should be approached as atmosphere before argument. Let the poems blur a little. Let them move through the room before trying to pin them down. For the library, Smokes adds a voice of contemporary unease and formal looseness to the Ukrainian shelf.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Lost Horse Press
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Country
- Ukraine
- ISBN
- 9780999199466