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Author
Publisher
Phoneme Media, an imprint of Deep Vellum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poet's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of poems by a prize-winning poet"-- Provided by publisher.
With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology? Mort traces a route of devastation...
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