Full Description
The publication of The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series. Co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Series has recurrently organized readings in the US for Ukraine's leading writers since 2008. The anthology presents translations of literary works by Series guests that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today's Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Kennan Institute/Harriman Institute Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series
Introduction
A Note On Transliteration
ANDREY KURKOV
From Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
HRYTSKO CHUBAI
The Woman
and ever so slowly looms . . .
The Corridor with Eye-Sized Doors
When your lips are but a half a breath away . . .
From Maria
Light and Confession
OLEH LYSHEHA
Song 55
MARJANA SAVKA
Books We've Never Read
From A Short History of Dance
Easter Jazz
For Yann Tiersen
Boston, April 2007
Baghdad Night
In This City
Who, Marlene, Who?
Some woman . . .
Organs of Sense
My beloved sun . . .
VIKTOR NEBORAK
From Genesis of the Flying Head
Monologue from a Canine Pretext
A Drum-Tympanum (a sonnet uttered by the Flying Head)
She (rap performance by the Kids of the Queenie) Part 3
An Itty Bitty Ditty 'bout Mr. Bazio (sung by Viktor Morozov)
Fish
Supper
Green sounds echo . . .
The Writer
The Poet
ANDRIY BONDAR
Genes
Slavic Gods
The Men of My Country
Just Don't Push Me Away
Fantasy
Robbie Williams
St. Nick No. 628
The Roman Alphabet
Jogging
YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH
The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary
TARAS PROKHASKO 1
Selections from FM Galicia
22.11
24.11
30.11
04.12
07.12
09.12
15.12
16.12
23.12
15.01
24.01
25.01
27.01
10.02
SERHIY ZHADAN
Chinese Cooking
Hotel Business
Children's Train
The Inner Color of Eyes
AlcoholContraband
Paprika
. . . not to wake her up . . .
The Lord Sympathizes with Outsiders
The Smallest Girl in Chinatown
Owner of the Best Gay Bar
The Percentage of Suicides among Clowns
IVAN MALKOVYCH
Stand up and look . . .
bird's elegy
happiness . . .
futile people
The Village Teacher's Lesson
Nothing is right here, you see: . . .
An Evening with Great-Grandma
The black parachute of anxiety grows . . .
There is much—I know—sadness . . .
The Man
The Music That Walked Away
At Home
I gaze at my mountains . . .
Tonight . . .
Circle
an evening (goose) pastoral
A Message for T.
VASYL GABOR
The High Water
A Story About One Dollar
Five Short Stories for Natalie—The Fifth Story—The Last One—The Lover
YURI VYNNYCHUK
The Flowerbed in the Kilim
Pea Soup
From Spring Games in Summer Gardens
Prologue
The Pilgrim's Dance, Part One
Malva Landa, Part One
Pears à la Crêpe
OLEKSANDR BOICHENKO
Out of Great Love
The Lunch of a Man of Letters
In a State of Siege
SOPHIA ANDRUKHOVYCH
An Out-of-tune-Piano, an Accordion
LYUBA YAKIMCHUK
Apricots of the Donbas
The Face of Coal
The Slag Piles of Breasts
Apricots in Hard Hats
My Grandmother's Fairy Tale
The Book of Angels
the eye of the slag heap
decomposition
eyebrows
I have a crisis for you
false friends and beloved
such people are called naked
marsala
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