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ECHOES FROM THE ODYSSEY  
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Oksana Maksymchuk
July 29, 2024
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_ “War is warm this year,” writes the poet Oksana Maksymchuk,
violence spilling over international borders, stinging with no end in
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ECHOES FROM THE ODYSSEY

By Oksana Maksymchuk   

When the air raid’s over

I still hear them: sirens

airing their wings

on the ghostly boulders of buildings

swelling out of the morning mist

War is warm this year, yet

they’re wearing icy armor

each feather frozen —

a cut-throat razor or

a delicate rounded coin

with a protruding spine

Merciless, guiltlessly 

unabating, sirens 

sing when I close my eyes

stinging them from the inside

with icy quills

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and
literary translator. Her

debut English-language poetry collection Still City is the 2024 Pitt
Poetry Series selection,

forthcoming with University of Pittsburgh Press (US) and Carcanet
Press (UK). She is also the

author of two award-winning poetry collections, Xenia and Lovy, in the
Ukrainian. Her poems

appeared in AGNI, The Irish Times, The Paris Review, The Poetry
Review, and many other journals. She co-edited an anthology “Words
for War: New Poems from Ukraine,” and co-translated several
poetry collections. She is a recipient of the National Endowments for
the Arts Translation Fellowship, the Scaglione Prize for Literary
Translation from the Modern Language Association of America, the
American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, and
other honors. Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern
University. In the recent years, she has been splitting her time
between Chicago, Budapest, Warsaw, and her hometown of Lviv, Ukraine.
Connect with her on her website www.oksanamaksymchuk.com
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