What We Live For, What We Die For
Selected Poems
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2019
160 pages
978-0-300-24554-7 (ISBN)
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ZhadanSerhiy: Serhiy Zhadan was born in the Luhansk Region of Ukraine and educated in Kharkiv. His previous works include Mesopotamia, and his books have been translated into several languages. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps are an award-winning translation team who have been translating Ukrainian poetry since 1989.
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Serhiy Zhadan was born in the Luhansk Region of Ukraine and educated in Kharkiv. His previous works include Mesopotamia, and his books have been translated into several languages. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps are an award-winning translation team who have been translating Ukrainian poetry since 1989.
Serhiy Zhadan was born in the Luhansk Region of Ukraine and educated in Kharkiv. His previous works include Mesopotamia, and his books have been translated into several languages. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps are an award-winning translation team who have been translating Ukrainian poetry since 1989.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- What We Live For, What We Die For
- FROM Why I'm Not on Social Media (2015)
- Needle
- Search
- Sect
- Chechen Girl
- Psycho
- Pillager
- Headphones
- Chaplain
- Spy
- Rhinoceros
- FROM Life of Maria (2015)
- "'Where are you coming from?'"
- "Take only what is most important"
- "You can find just about everything down at the train station"
- "So I throw down my weapon and start to crawl"
- "The dark shattered wicked winter"
- "All night long she sings in her room"
- Cellist
- FROM Ethiopia (2009)
- "Neither the smallest girl in Chinatown"
- FROM Maradona (2007)
- The Mushrooms of Donbas
- Lukoil
- FROM UkSSR (2004)
- Contraband
- ". not to wake her up"
- ". remember how winter began in your town"
- "The hot heart of the year is burning"
- The Lord Sympathizes with Outsiders
- Sweet Peppers
- Dictionaries in the Service of the Church
- Socialism
- Oceans
- Hemp Harvesters
- FROM History of Culture at the Turn of This Century (2003)
- FROM To Live Means to Die
- History of Culture at the Turn of This Century
- The Sell-Out Poets of the '60s
- Serbo-Croatian
- Cleaning Ladies in the Corridors
- Polish Rock
- Primary School
- To Live Means to Die
- Post Office
- Elegy for Ursula
- FROM Chinese Cooking
- Chinese Cooking
- Children's Train
- Hotel Business
- Used Car Salesman
- Noncommercial Film
- Funeral Orchestra
- Alcohol
- Children's Crusade
- Children's Crusade
- FROM Ballads About War and Reconstruction (2001)
- Music for the Fat
- New York Fuckin' City
- The End of Ukrainian Syllabotonic Verse
- Translator's Note on "The End of Ukrainian Syllabotonic Verse"
- Acknowledgments
