The Essay: Words for War

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Words for War

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Oksana Lutsyshyna is an award-winning writer, translator and poet.

Oksana Lutsyshyna is an award-winning writer, translator, and literary scholar. She draws on the legacy of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and English language writers.

A week of Essays from Ukrainian poets who have responded to war in their country since 2014. First hybrid and now total.

Oksana Lutsyshyna was born in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, but now resides in Austin, Texas. She is an award-winning writer, translator, and literary scholar. She draws on the legacy of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and English language writers. Eastern Europe has become her own private nightmare, where time does not move, where the dead poets speak. 
'There's no place on earth that's safe. There's no earth anymore.'....

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Hybrid war came to Ukraine in 2014. Its poets have been responding to it ever since.

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