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“The Book of Births” is a unique project in which, based on the church metric books of the 19th–20th centuries of the village of Kryvorivnia, the author Oksana Lebedivna created a Hutsul saga about the fate of people who survived traumatic historical experiences: the Opryshki movement, the First and Second World Wars, a partisan, the Soviet occupation, repressions, and the modern war of Russia against Ukraine.
In this book, the titles of the poems are entries from the metric books in their Latin and Ukrainian transliteration, which takes us to the events of those years and paints a psychological portrait of Ukrainians. These are poems in which the author interprets the period “birth — death” as birth, a transition to a new quality — a mental state of consciousness after death. The book balances female and male voices, and each monologue corresponds to the story of a separate character.