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Longlist, The 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize | Longlist, 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry | One of Financial Times's Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024
The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk's debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.
The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk's debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war effects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Intimate Relationship
- The Fourth Wall
- Warm, Warmer
- Emergency Bag
- Stolen Time
- Collective Bargaining
- Amor Fati
- Reversals
- When a Missile Finds a Home
- Several Circles
- War-Shy
- Ungentle Reminder
- Arguments for Peace
- Reconfigured Connections
- Duck and Cover
- What Gives
- House Arrest
- Cherry Orchard
- Contact
- Parting
- The Orders of Priority
- The Cat’s Odyssey
- Commercial Break
- Pegman
- Post-Truth
- Still Life of a Person with a Pug
- Water under the Bridge
- Drone Footage
- Rocket in the Room
- Muted Bell
- Memento
- Rose
- A Lullaby with No Theodicy
- Tempo
- A Guest from Afar
- Supplication in the Ruins
- Timeline Scroll
- Trees
- Marquise of O
- Beyond the Visible
- Lining up the Crosshairs
- Algorithmic Meltdown
- Orphic Euphemisms
- The Prodigality of Suffering
- The Remains of a Universe
- Will to Grow
- Degrees of Separation
- The Head of Orpheus
- Critical Feeling
- Transfer of Knowledge under the Occupation
- Mirroring
- Unfinished Missives
- A Museum of Rescued Objects
- Soul Is a Sieve
- Improbable Portals
- Advice to a Young Poem
- Sentences
- Clusters of Roses
- Revisions
- Centipede
- Unverified Footage
- Survivor Syndrome
- Mother’s Work
- Samurai Cat
- Neighbor
- Lingering Likeness
- Blank Pages
- Pareidolia
- Involuntary Gameness
- Crimea Quince
- Puppets of God
- Unsteady Topography
- The Winter of Our Disco
- A Heart Has a Home, but Not—a Fist
- Pure Poetry
- The Rites of Moloch
- Reciprocity
- The Muse of History
- Inner Feast
- Beyond Defiance
- Lessons in Stoicism
- Echoes from the Odyssey
- Duck-Rabbit
- Genesis
- Kingdom of Ends
- Approximations
- Ambush
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author