Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems

Title: Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems Author: Mort, Valzhyna ISBN: 9780374603243 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 2021 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Poetry 1286529 Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED 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 Sovi