On Sand and Silt

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Translators vii
4. Foreword 1
5. Foreword to Durable Words 6
6. From the Editors 11
7. Durable Words 20
8. Three Poems 31
9. Keep It All 41
10. Easy Writing 58
11. Wartime Necessities 79
12. Thereof 93
13. Nadezhda, or Hope, 2022 98
14. J’écris avec les mots 121
15. Ukraine—A Polyphony 128
16. Two Poems 137
17. The Invincible Nightingale: Ukrainian Poetry as an Antidote to War 147
18. February twenty-four 152
19. On Sand and Silt 156
20. The Ukrainian Dictionary of War: Wartime as a Challenge to Language 181
21. Two Stories 186
22. Empty Forms, Infinite Becoming: Freedom to Be Ordinary 193
23. Humanitarian Corridor 209
24. Acknowledgments 220
25. Contributors 225