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A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.00
Publisher: Arrowsmith Press
Published: May 1 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
We act like children with our dead, Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: confused, / as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die. In poem after devastating poem, Kruk confronts what we would prefer not to see: a person runs toward a bullet/ with a wooden shield and a warm heart... Translated with the utmost of care by Amelia Glaser and Yulia Ilchuk, A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails is a guidebook to the emotional combat in Ukraine.
These stunning poems of witness by one of Ukraine's most revered poets are by turns breathless, philosophical, and visionary. In a dark recapitulation of evolution itself, Kruk writes: nothing predicted the arrival of humankind..../ nothing predicted the arrival of the tank... Her taught, lean lines can turn epigrammatic: what will kill you will seduce you first, or they can strike you like Lomachenko's lightening jabs: flirt, Cheka agent, bitch.
Leading readers into the world's darkest spaces, Kruk implies that the light of language can nevertheless afford some measure of protection. Naming serves as a shield, albeit a wooden one. The paradox is that after the bullets have been fired and the missiles landed, the wooden shield, the printed book, reconstitutes itself.
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