Motherfield : poems & Belarusian protest diary / Julia Cimafiejeva, Abdurraqib Hanif and Mort Valzhyna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsimafeeva, I︠U︡li︠a︡, author.

Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- author.

Valzhyna, Mort, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Poetry--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Phoneme Media, 2022.

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, [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 during her childhood. The book opens with a poet's diary recording the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since its 2020 presidential election. Motherfield 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. But can she really escape the contaminated farmlands of her youth and her Belarusian mother tongue? Can she escape the radiation of her motherfield? This is the first collection of Julia Cimafiejeva's poetry in English, prepared by cotranslators and poets Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

from The Protest Diary, August 2020-March 2021

КАМЕНЬ СТРАХУ

The Stone of Fear

НА ГАРОДЗЕ ПРАБАБУЛЯЎ

In the Garden of Great-Grandmothers

ЦЫРК

Circus

БАБУЛІ

Umbilical

ЦЕЛА ПАЭТКІ

Body of a Poetess

Mother Tongue

ЧОРТ

Rocking the Devil

1986

ПОЛЕ І

Motherfield (1)

ПОЛЕ IІ

Motherfield (2)

* * *

[A Swinging Girl]

ПЕРШАМУ ГОРАДУ

Zhlobin, My First City

ВКДШ

MSCRRDG

МОВА - ТУРМА

Language Is a Prison Sentence

АДМОЎНАСЦЬ

Negative Linguistic Capability

ВЫЦІНАНКА

Papercutting

[My Poems Sniff]

НОВАЯ ВОПРАТКА КАРАЛЯ

Emperor's New Clothes

НА СЯМЕЙНЫМ ПАДВОРКУ

Family Threshold

ПАСЛЯДОЎНАСЦЬ

Order

ЧЫТАЮ ВЕРШ НА ЧУЖОЙ МОВЕ

I Read a Poem in a Foreign Language

ЗІМОЙ

Winter

АЎТАПАРТРЭТ У ВЫГЛЯДЗЕ КОСТАЧКІ АВАКАДА

Self-Portrait as an Avocado Seed

ЗАБРАЛІ

"They Have Me"

My European Poem

Back Cover.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Cimafiejeva, Julia Motherfield

ISBN:

9781646052516

164605251X