Mort Valzhyna - Music For The Dead And Resurrected Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 confrontsthe 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.
Title: Music For The Dead And Resurrected Poems
Author(s): Mort Valzhyna
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374603243
Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/9/2021