A crash course in Molotov cocktails : poems /

'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. &...

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Main Author: Kruk, Halyna, 1974- (Author)
Other Authors: Glaser, Amelia (Translator), Ilchuk, Yuliya (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Ukrainian
Language Notes:Text in Ukrainian and English.
Published: Medford, Massachusetts : Arrowsmith Press, [2023].
Series:Arrowsmith ; 51.
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Summary:'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.
Physical Description:xi, 179 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9798986340197