Smokes by Yuri Izdryk and translated by Roman Ivashkiv

This is poetry from Ukraine.

Smokes by Yuri Izdryk translated by Roman Ivashkiv is published by Lost Horse Press. This is a Book originally written in Ukrainian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999199466E12.

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.

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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