Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Poems

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Pub Date 03 Nov 2020 | Archive Date 16 Sep 2021

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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.

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...


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Valzhyna Mort's 'Music for the dead and Resurrected is a absolute stunner. Might as well me my favourite collection to date. I love the historical theme which makes it even more stronger and intriguing.

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This might be my favorite collection of modern poetry. The rhythm is so strong! I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys modern poetry

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A lovely set of poems deeply grounded in classical music, greek literature, and critiques of Russian nationalism and the devastation of WWII. A fascinating and wonderfully melodic read that listens closely to different types of poems- different styles and forms- and combines them into something extremely powerful.

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