Babi Yar and Other Poems by Ilya Ehrenburg, translated by Anna Krushelnitskaya Frank Ormsby This anthology features contemporary writing

This anthology features contemporary writing that draws upon dialect in ways that explore the potential of the narrative and poetic voice

and the father’s paralysis

As is true of all memory work

Is this punishment or reward

one that produces extraordinary verbal and emotional effects’

Babi Yar and Other Poems by Ilya Ehrenburg, translated by Anna Krushelnitskaya Frank Ormsby This anthology features contemporary writingIlya Ehrenburg (18911967) was one of the most prolific Russian writers of the twentieth century. He wrote nearly a hundred books, including The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples, Life of the Automobile, The Fall of Paris and The Storm. He served as a Russian war correspondent in France during World War I and later covered the Spanish Civil War for Izvestia. During World War II his outspoken columns won him a huge following