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Still City: Poems

Still City: Poems

Maksymchuk, Oksana

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0822967359
ISBN13: 9780822967354
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Nov 5 2024
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Longlist, The 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Longlist, 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry One of Financial Times's Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024

The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk's debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.

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