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Book 1. Mesopotamia
Philosophical digressions, fantastic images, exquisite metaphors and specific humour - everything that attracts so much in the works of Serhiy Zhadan is here. The stories of Babylon, retold for those interested in love and death. The life of a city lying between the rivers, biographies of characters fighting for their right to be heard and understood, a chronicle of street clashes and daily passions. Confessions and betrayals, escapes and returns, tenderness and cruelty."
Book 2. The
Psalm of Aviation
These poems were written during 2020. The place where they were written lies in the hills. This meant that there was a wide horizon line and a lot of air. There were also many trees and birds, beams, ponds, and the steady, distant breathing of the city beyond the horizon. A change in optics somehow leads to a change in writing. This is what the book is mainly about: how we are shaped by landscapes, how trees add verticality and lakes add depth, how spring greenery teaches us optimism and summer rivers teach us generosity. A simple
knowledge that helps us appreciate every voice we hear in the morning."
Book 3. The
List of Ships
Sixty poems about memory born of love and about the fire that leaves tenderness. Sixty attempts to describe the light and tell about the air above the city. Sixty fragments of other people's conversations, sixty voices that fill the spring twilight. "The List of Ships" is a list of those who have left, but who cannot be forgotten. A list of names that accompany you throughout your life. A list of cities where you are always welcome. Perhaps the author's most intimate and painful book.
