In the absence of clocks / Jacob Shores-Arguello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shores-Arguello, Jacob.

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukrainians--Social life and customs--Poetry.

Ukrainians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE In the fascinating collection of poems, In the Absence of Clocks, poet Jacob Shores-Arguello takes readers on an illuminating voyage through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political corruption and public outrage, Shores-Arguello s lyrics of a revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and familiar. Throughout the collection are the iconic images and myriad juxtapositions of Ukrainian life. wolves howling in the snow and bakers pounding early-morning loaves of bread; farmlands and cities alike rocked by political transformation; gypsies and protesters; opulent images of Byzantium and the concrete ghosts of Chernobyl all meet here at the crossroads of East and West, democracy and communism, reality and mythology. As the narrator travels across the Ukraine, he does much more than cross the distances between Horlivka and Odessa or Kiev and the Black Sea. As the tides of change swirl around him, they mirror his own search for a cultural identity and history. "

Contents:

Cover

Frontis Map

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Finding the Old Family Farm

Ukraine

In the Absence of Clocks

Crimea, an Unexpected Freeze

On the Holiday for the Dead

Graduation Day

The Dogs

Childhoods

The New Clock Tower

Secret Police

Babushka Baba Yaga

North Toward Kiev

To Ukraine

Mapping the Republics of the Dead

Far South, an Unexpected Heat

The Danger in Leaving Her

Under the River Named God

Dear Father,

Bread

Mountain Answers

Remains

A Crumbling Shroud Covers Reactor Number 4

Some Pilgrimage

Orange Revolution

Kiev

Revolution Comes to Kiev, Masha Comes to Kiev

Listening Device

Monument

The Orange Revolution

Masha in the Afternoon

Remember

Countrymen

Sex and the Orange Revolution

Baptism of Kiev

Revolution

Boundary Waters

Masha Back Home

Her Mother, Somehow Surprised

A New Economy, the Old Currency

Her Village, Once Starved until All the Animals and All the Bullets Were Gone

Ghost Sick

Violin and Sea

Untitled

Her Hair, Twin Braids of Dark Clove,

Paradise

Come Back

What I Saw

Finding the Old Family Farm II

Summer

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Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-80594-4

0-8093-3104-7

OCLC:

823741739