Dislocation will be available for purchase at the talk with Julia Nemirovskaya on 4 March.
Books available for online orders on 5 March.
“In a world where all the answers collapsed in one go,” writes Bakh Akhmedov, one of the excellent poets in this anthology. Poetry cannot provide answers to the great issues of war and murder that impel this book—but these pages do save and then reinvent the Russian language from which you can form them" — Peter Pomerantsev
This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world. Divided into thematic clusters, the book delves into the death, despair, displacements, and dislocations brought on by the war, as well as the determination and hope of the people who stand for freedom and against Putin’s aggressive and repressive regime. The writing is poignant, beautiful, and, in many cases, mordantly funny. This poetry both reflects and participates in a language and a literary culture that are riven by civilizational conflicts. The featured poems were sourced from Kopilka, a repository of current antiwar poetry.
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