Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems by Mort, Valzhyna

Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New...
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Author: Valzhyna Mort
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Language: English
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Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems by Mort, Valzhyna

Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems

€41,44

Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems

€41,44
Author: Valzhyna Mort
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.

Author: Valzhyna Mort
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/03/2020
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780374252069


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/19/2020
Booklist 11/01/2020 pg. 15

About the Author
Valzhyna Mort is the author of Factory of Tears and Collected Body. She has received the Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, the Amy Clampitt Residency, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she writes in English and Belarusian.

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