War Poetry in Ukraine: Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk
Maria G. Rewakowicz finds the need to witness and the yearning to understand in the Ukrainian war poetry of Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk.
Maria G. Rewakowicz is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. She holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and has taught Ukrainian literature at a number of universities, most recently at Rutgers. She has authored four collections of poetry in Ukrainian and two monographs of literary criticism in English. Her book Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 (2018) is the 2019 winner of the Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies. Her most recent publication is a translated volume of Mykola Vorobiov's selected poetry, Mountain and Flower (2020). Her translations from Polish and Ukrainian have appeared in Agni, Cyphers, Modern Poetry in Translation, Modern Haiku, and Toronto Slavic Annual. Born in Poland to Ukrainian parents, Rewakowicz lives in New York City.
Maria G. Rewakowicz finds the need to witness and the yearning to understand in the Ukrainian war poetry of Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk.