Presented in a dual-language format, A Field of Foundlings is the first in Lost Horse Press's series of Ukrainian poetry in translation. Starovoyt's poetry investigates the curse and virtue of forgetting, the suppressed generational memory of the twentieth century, and the new context of its retelling in Eastern Europe. Drawing on the paradoxes of mythology, technology, and tradition, Starovoyt brings the traces of undesirable history and the minefields of memory into an unexpected constellation to interrogate assertions of knowledge and meaning-making in the world today. In a time where the chaos and power of forces beyond our own seem to diminish the potency of the past, Starovoyt's poems invoke a conscious dialogue with a past that is not severed from the ever-changing present, but echoes in our sense of self, brings some continuity to our daily decisions, and orients us toward the future.

About the Author

Iryna Starovoyt is a poet, essayist, and associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Ukrainian Catholic University. Her work has been featured in several poetry anthologies and individual poems have been translated and published in Polish, Lithuanian, English, and Armenian or set to music. Grace Mahoney is a translator of Ukrainian and Russian literature. She is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.

Book Information
ISBN 9780998196343
Author Iryna Starovoyt
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Lost Horse Press
Publisher Lost Horse Press
Weight(grams) 159g