In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky Сергей Плохий Clive Franklin

Clive Franklin

I embrace the transience of time

Dmitri Prigov

that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone

The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene

In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky Сергей Плохий Clive FranklinThis is the silence before the explosion, between volleys of rifle fire, the silence of foreboding, of fear and insomnia, and the silence of complicity. The poems were written in the hour of war, in the lyrics of passing through fire. So write the editors, two of Americas most significant poets, Carolyn Forche and Ilya Kaminsky, in their introduction. Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever