How Are We Meant to Survive This Among the twenty-six authors of this collection are famous poets who have written many books, and those whose main craft was prose or translation. Whether they live in Russia or in other countries, they are united by their native language, commitment to humanistic values, a sense of responsibility and the urgent need of the writer, and simply every person, to overcome dumbness, to articulate the horror of what is happening now. The extremely condensed time of catastrophes requires concentrated, that is, poetic texts. And since no one is able to comprehend it alone, under this cover is a joint, collective effort, voices calling out to each other in an attempt to find answers to the most painful questions of our time. Thanks to eighteen translators, these voices can be heard in the world.
