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Music for the Dead and Resurrected

By: Valzhyna Mort
Narrated by: Valzhyna Mort
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Publisher's summary

Bloomsbury presents Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort, read by Valzhyna Mort.

Winner of the International Griffin Prize.

A New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2020.

Music for the Dead and Resurrected captures the complexity of living in the shadows of imperial force, of the vulnerability of bodies, of seeing with more than one's eyes.

Valzhyna Mort's work is characterised by a memorial sensibility that honours those lost to the violence of nation states. In Music for the Dead and Resurrected, the poet offers us a body of work that balances political import with serious play. There are few poets writing with such an intuitive sense of the balance between arcane and contemporary currents in poetry. Mort's lines are timeless, finely honed to last beyond a single lifetime.

©2022 Valzhyna Mort (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Critic reviews

"[A] striking study of what Belarus can teach the world about state violence, collective memory and the role of poetry in fighting tyranny.... [Mort] captures, through language, the contours of dissent. Soviet monuments remain upright in Minsk, like concrete odes to terror, repression and silence. And yet Music for the Dead and the Resurrected feels like its own monument, not only to Belarusians but also to victims of state violence around the world." (New Yorker)

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