Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond

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Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in English translation, the poems create a language capable of portraying the suffering and destruction of the Ukrainian Jewish population during the Holocaust as well as other peoples murdered at the site. Зміст / Contents A Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction. Babyn Yar in Ukrainian Poetry What Happened in the City? Kyiv as a Jewish City How “Poetry about Babyn Yar” is Organized Recreating Memories of the Tragedy Bazhan and the Poems of Sights Drach and the Atmosphere of the Year 1966 Kiyanovska and the New Style of Performative Witnessing The Key Tropes Previous Collections Notes Poems / Поезії Monologue of a Monument Monologue of a Monument Never Built Monologue of the Monument Ravine For Marianna Kiyanovska – in Response to Her Book The Voices of Babyn Yar Michelangelo The Gorgon Medusa 1941: The Jewish Question Tested by Tragedy [On June 22, 1966, at five in the afternoon] A Kyiv Legend [From that horrible holy time] [Indian summer in Babyn Yar] [On the eve of the holy Sabbath] Ravine Laughter Melnyk Street [The stones of my brothers and the sky of my sisters] Babyn Yar To Marta Tarnawsky In Babyn Yar Grandson’s Monologue Kyiv. September 29. Babyn Yar [i would die on this street or on the one around the corner] [I even managed to grow during the war] [i will say it anyway i will accept it anyway] [these streets are already ruins maybe not all but already] [i’ve been getting together a collection for the last three weeks] [here is the ravine where hans does his shooting] [Walking near Babyn Yar] [On the edge of Babyn Yar they raised] Requiem for Babyn Yar [Resurrect me, future, for a new] At Babyn Yar Babyn Yar To the Jewish People Basketball Babyn Yar To the Jewish People Babyn Yar In my life too there was a Babyn Yar To the Jewish People Annotations Glossary Timeline Prior Publications In English Translation Illustration Credits Bibliography Index of Titles and First Lines in English Translation Index of Titles and First Lines in Ukrainian