Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
Today I talked to the translators of\xa0Marianna Kiyanovska's\xa0The Voices of Babyn Yar\xa0(HURI, 2022),\xa0Max Rosochinsky and\xa0Oksana Maksymchuk.\nWith this collection of stirring poems the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival in their own imagined voices. Artful and carefully intoned, the poems convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv\u2019s Babyn Yar from a first-person perspective to an effect that is simultaneously immersive and estranging. While conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.\nNataliya Shpylova-Saeed has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures (Indiana University, 2022).\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies