{"product_id":"khmelnytsky-station","title":"Khmelnytsky Station","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRimas Uzgiris\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator who was born in the USA but lives in Lithuania. He is the author of North of Paradise (Kelsay Books, 2019) and Tarp (Kauko laiptai, 2019. Uzgiris has also translated numerous poetry collections from Lithuanian as well as the Venice Biennale Golden Lion winning opera Sun and Sea. His work has appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Barrow Street, TLS and elsewhere. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant, NEA Translation Fellowship, and the Lithuanian St. Jerome Translation Prize, Uzgiris teaches at Vilnius University in the translation studies department. The poems in this collection were inspired by two trips to Ukraine in the fall of 2024 where he was an invited speaker and reader at the Translatorium festival in Khmelnytsky and the Land of Poets festival in Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKhmelnytsky Station\u003c\/em\u003e is a sensitive, personal look into the human side of the invasion of Ukraine, told with tenderness, and compassion. These poems offer glimpses of every-day lives sustained throughout the threats and impending tragedy. All of this is accomplished with stunning craft, essential language reminding us that there are many human stories in this war that we never see in the news.\u003cbr\u003e— Georgia A. Popoff, judge, author of Living With Haints\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What apple can you offer \/ In a garden being blown \/ To hell?” Written against the harrowing backdrop of Russia’s attempt at Ukrainian civilizational erasure, the poems of Khmelnytsky Station render the bewildering complexities of bearing witness to circumstances in which the compassionate observer can “find no place,” capable only of “standing like a voided ticket in [an] empty square \/ with just some euros, band-aids, words to share.” In pages as deeply felt as they are formally diverse, Khmelnytsky Station records the horrible incongruities born of the dailiness of war — the intersections of atrocity and domesticity, bomb sirens and coffee shops, despair and love — while paying homage to the anguished dignity of a people who continue to defy the prospect of their own extinction.\u003cbr\u003e— Malachi Black, author of Indirect Light\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\/pages\u003c\/strong\u003e: chapbook \/ 40 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781733705189\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Comstock Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rimas Užgiris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54824359526733,"sku":"9781733705189","price":14.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0016\/9325\/3689\/files\/ComstockCVR5_15_page-0001.jpg?v=1790238672","url":"https:\/\/knygynas.biz\/products\/khmelnytsky-station","provider":"Knygynas eureka!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}