Helen Chervitz
It was challenging to adjust to my second-time-around life in the Ukrainian capital. But eventually, the city has grown, or regrown, on me. And now I’m staying put.
It was challenging to adjust to my second-time-around life in the Ukrainian capital. But eventually, the city has grown, or regrown, on me. And now I’m staying put.
Personally, I argue that every person born in the Soviet Union belongs to this generation of the wilderness. We were born in a sort of bondage, after all.
The violence struck at my sun-drenched memories, at the literary heart of this seaside city, and frightened me into poetry.