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ON THE ROAD TO LVIV IBD

ARROWSMITH PRESS
10 / 2023
9798987924136
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Sinopsis

Prismatic and polysemous,áOn the Road to Lviváinvites us on an odyssey across Ukraine in the hour of war. 'This chronicle/ Took shape the day the war began, which was/ My 65thábirthday,' 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 poemâÇÖs speaker examines his own engagement with Ukraine as a 'democratic-minded' Westerner 'determined to develop/ Civil societies around the world.'áNot since ByronâÇÖsáMazeppaáhas there been an English-language poem comparably engaged with Ukrainian history, appearing hereáen faceáwith Nina MurrayâÇÖs masterly translation into Ukrainian.