A crash course in Molotov cocktails : poems

"'We act like children with our dead,' Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: "confused,/ as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die." In poem after devastating poem, Kruk confronts what we would prefer not to see: "a person runs toward a bullet/ with a wooden shield and a warm heart ... " Translated with the utmost of care by Amelia Glaser and Yulia Ilchuk, A Crash Course in Molotov...