Music for the Dead and Resurrected
eBook - ePub

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Poems

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Poems

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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Information

Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9780374721619
Edition
0
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. To Antigone, a Dispatch
  6. Bus Stops: Ars Poetica
  7. Genesis
  8. An Attempt at Genealogy
  9. Little Song for a Pocketknife
  10. Washday
  11. Little Songs
  12. Rose Pandemic
  13. New Year in Vishnyowka (a lullaby)
  14. Psalm 18
  15. Singer
  16. Music Practice
  17. Gamma Rays
  18. A Song for a Raised Voice and a Screwdriver
  19. Baba Bronya
  20. Guest
  21. Self-Portrait with Madonna on Pravda Avenue
  22. Ode to Branca
  23. Nocturne for a Moving Train
  24. State of Light: 1986
  25. To Ingeborg Bachmann in Rome
  26. Poet’s Biography
  27. Music for Girl’s Voice and Bison
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Also by Valzhyna Mort
  30. About the Author
  31. Newsletter Sign-up
  32. Contents
  33. Copyright