Still City: A Diary of an Invasion by Oksana Maksymchuk Helen Mort Postcolonial Love Poem is a

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but in pauses

beside and above the water: in wetlands

Still City: A Diary of an Invasion by Oksana Maksymchuk Helen Mort Postcolonial Love Poem is aThe poems in this debut English language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems have been composed in the months preceding the full scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others have emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality with urgency and