Book
On the road to Lviv
Arrowsmith, 55, Arrowsmith Press
2023
Appears in Recent Books by UI Authors
Abstract
Prismatic and polysemous, On the Road to Lviv invites us on an odyssey across Ukraine in the hour of war. “This chronicle/ Took shape the day the war began, which was/ My 65th birthday,“ writes legendary traveler, war correspondent, memoirist and poet Christopher Merrill. At once deeply personal yet rooted in history so recent you can almost see the smoke billowing from the ruins of Mariupol, the poem is equal parts chronicle, a document of war crimes, and a sober self-reflection in which the poem’s speaker examines his own engagement with Ukraine as a “democratic- minded” Westerner “determined to develop/ Civil societies around the world.” Not since Byron’s Mazeppa has there been an English-language poem comparably engaged with Ukrainian history, appearing here en face with Nina Murray’s masterly translation into Ukrainian.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On the road to Lviv
- Creators
- Christopher Merrill - University of Iowa, African Studies ProgramNina Murray (Translator)
- Resource Type
- Book
- Series
- Arrowsmith; 55
- ISBN
- 9798987924136
- Publisher
- Arrowsmith Press; Medford, Massachusetts
- Number of pages
- 107 pages
- Translated title
- Дорогою до Львова
- Comment
- Parallel text in English and Ukrainian
- Language
- English; Ukrainian
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- International Writing Program; International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984702352402771
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