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While his wartime work acutely represents the human experience of being stuck in place during these illogical, suspended and isolated times, the prewar poems are prescient and aware of the building tension and portents of what is to come. Unlike many Ukrainian poets after Russia\u2019s invasion, Belsky continues to write in Russian, as a form of resistance against unquestioned nationalism, insisting on a multilingual Ukraine; Russian, after all, is his mother tongue.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his poems both before and since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Stanislav Belsky is a master of minimalism, his short forms registering and bearing witness to the everyday. His poetry is \u201can insidiously expanding\/conspiracy against the eternal,\u201d a space for soberly encountering reality and \u201cenumerating a list of the dead\/like a rusted bathtub.\u201d Tatiana Retivov, Anna Shershnyova, and olga mikolaivna carefully guide the Anglophone reader through the ever-present siren wailing and the \u201cgrinding of discourse,\u201d re-presenting these texts in their stark precision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2014Venya Gushchin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In this collection, Stanislav Belsky has written poems that reflects the polyphonic day-to-day of wartime Kyiv. The language of air-alarm apps merge with neighborhood chats, news reports, and conversations on the street. olga mikolaivna has rendered them into stunning works in English, which capture Belsky\u2019s unique poetic style and document the experience of war for English-language readers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2014Amelia Glaser<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What happens to the calm observer in the face of ceaseless rocket fire? Stanislav Belsky has spent years writing poems that constitute \u201carguments with opponents of silence.\u201d This book sees him facing opponents of a different order; the experiences of wartime test his commitments to solitude and unhurried contemplation. And still, even as these poems admit (and absorb) the cacophony of war, they continue to steadfastly slow time, compel concentration: the bombs fall, but \u201cI stay put on the bench with books and glasses.\u201d The crystalline, careful translations by Tatiana Retivov and Anna Shershnyova, and olga mikolaivna hew closely to Belsky\u2019s precise and minimalist compositions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2014Ainsley Morse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanislav Belsky<br \/>\n9781956921571<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;the polyphonic day-to-day of wartime Kyiv&#8221;\u2014Amelia Glaser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[236,17],"product_tag":[515,283,513,18,383,511,512,514,510],"class_list":{"0":"post-15954","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-dialogos","8":"product_tag-anna-shershnyova","9":"product_tag-bilingual","10":"product_tag-olga-mikolaivna","11":"product_tag-poetry","12":"product_tag-poetry-translation","13":"product_tag-russian","14":"product_tag-stanislav-belsky","15":"product_tag-tatiana-retivov","16":"product_tag-ukraine","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"featured","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-simple","25":"berocket_lgv_grid","26":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>There Won\u2019t Be a Culmination, Ukainian poet Stanislav Belsky at Lavender Ink \/ Di\u00e1logos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stanislav Belsky\u2019s poems are haunting\u2014there is not an escape route. 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