Motherfield : poems and Belarusian protest diary / Julia Cimafiejeva ; translated by Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsimafeeva, I︠U︡li︠a︡, author.

Contributor:

Mort, Valzhyna, 1981- translator.

Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- translator.

Language:

Belarusian

English

Subjects (All):

Belarus--Poetry.

Belarus.

Protest poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

128 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Phoneme Media, an imprint of Deep Vellum, [2022]

Summary:

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 poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poet's struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and friends, and ultimately chooses life in exile.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Stone of Fear

In the Garden of Great-Grandmothers

Circus

Umbilical

Body of a Poetess

Mother Tongue

Rocking the Devil

1986

Motherfield (1)

Motherfield (2)

[A Swinging Girl]

Zhlobin, My First City

MSCRRDG

Language Is a Prison Sentence

Negative Linguistic Capability

Papercutting

[My Poems Sniff]

Emperor's New Clothes

Family Threshold

Order

I Read a Poem in a Foreign Language

Winter

Self-Portrait as an Avocado Seed

"They Have Me".

Notes:

Translated from the Belarusian.

ISBN:

9781646052257

1646052250

OCLC:

1348392183