
- 112 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York Times In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. 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 from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet's voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory.Valzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- To Antigone, a Dispatch
- Bus Stops: Ars Poetica
- Genesis
- An Attempt at Genealogy
- Little Song for a Pocketknife
- Washday
- Little Songs
- Rose Pandemic
- New Year in Vishnyowka (a lullaby)
- Psalm 18
- Singer
- Music Practice
- Gamma Rays
- A Song for a Raised Voice and a Screwdriver
- Baba Bronya
- Guest
- Self-Portrait with Madonna on Pravda Avenue
- Ode to Branca
- Nocturne for a Moving Train
- State of Light: 1986
- To Ingeborg Bachmann in Rome
- Poet’s Biography
- Music for Girl’s Voice and Bison
- Acknowledgments
- Also by Valzhyna Mort
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright