In the absence of clocks /Jacob Shores-Arguello.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Frontis Map; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Finding the Old Family Farm; Ukraine; In the Absence of Clocks; Crimea, an Unexpected Freeze; On the Holiday for the Dead; Graduation Day; The Dogs; Childhoods; The New Clock Tower; Secret Police; Babushka Baba Yaga; North Toward Kiev; To Ukraine; Mapping the Republics of the Dead; Far South, an Unexpected Heat; The Danger in Leaving Her; Under the River Named God; Dear Father, ; Bread; Mountain Answers; Remains; A Crumbling Shroud Covers Reactor Number 4; Some Pilgrimage; Orange Revolution; Kiev.

Revolution Comes to Kiev, Masha Comes to KievListening Device; Monument; The Orange Revolution; Masha in the Afternoon; Remember; Countrymen; Sex and the Orange Revolution; Baptism of Kiev; Revolution; Boundary Waters; Masha Back Home; Her Mother, Somehow Surprised; A New Economy, the Old Currency; Her Village, Once Starved until All the Animals and All the Bullets Were Gone; Ghost Sick; Violin and Sea; Untitled; Her Hair, Twin Braids of Dark Clove, ; Paradise; Come Back; What I Saw; Finding the Old Family Farm II; Summer; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover.

In the fascinating collection of poems, In the Absence of Clocks, poet Jacob Shores-Arguello takes readers on an illuminating voyage through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political corruption and public outrage, Shores-Arguello's lyrics of a revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and familiar. Throughout the collection are the iconic images and myriad juxtapositions of Ukrainian life. wolves howling in the snow and bakers pounding early-morning loaves of bread; farmlands and citi.

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