Results for "Mort, Valzhyna"

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 p... Read More about Motherfield: Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York TimesIn 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... Read More about Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems

This charismatic Belarusian poet is considered "one of the best young poets in the world today " (World Literature Today).... Read More about Collected Body

A young Belarussian poet co-translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Franz Wright, who calls Valzhyna Mort "Electrifying... Read More about Factory of Tears (Lannan Literary Selections)

The lyrical, imaginatively-crafted debut collection by one of Germany's most important contemporary poets explores the "shifting of the mouth" toward the other, toward translation, toward a reckoning with historical silences. In KOCHANIE, TODAY I BOUGHT BREAD, Uljana Wolf crosses borders from East G... Read More about Kochanie, Today I Bought Bread

There has been no anthology in English dedicated to the poetics of the great generation of Russian modernists. For a group of poets so widely admired, relatively little seems known about their philosophy of poetry and their poetic influences, and although there is tremendous aesthetic diversity in t... Read More about Gossip & Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems & Prose