{"product_id":"motherfield-poems-belarusian-protest-diary-paperback","title":"Motherfield: Poems \u0026 Belarusian Protest Diary - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Cimafiejeva\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMort Valzhyna\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, \u003ci\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/i\u003e is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut can she really escape the contaminated farmlands of her youth and her impure Belarusian mother tongue? Can she really escape the radiation of her motherfield? This is the first collection of Julia Cimafiejeva's poetry in English, prepared by a team of co-translators and poets Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Cimafiejeva is a Belarusian poet and translator, and the author of four poetry collections in Belarusian. Her work has been translated into many languages and appeared in different projects, anthologies and magazines, including \u003ci\u003ePoetry International, Literary Hub, Financial Times, Lyrikline, \u003c\/i\u003e and others. Cimafiejeva translates from English and Norwegian. She is the winner of Carlos Sherman prize for the translations of poems by Stephen Crane. She currently lives in Graz, Austria with her husband, where she has been since 2020 at the invitation of the Kulturvermittlung Steiermark.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eFactory of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), \u003ci\u003eCollected Body\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and, mostly recently, \u003ci\u003eMusic for the Dead and Resurrected\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2020), named one of the best poetry book of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of multiple award-winning and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling books, including poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Crown Ain't Worth Much\u003c\/i\u003e (Button Poetry, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eA Fortune for Your Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e (Tin House, 2019) and nonfiction collections \u003ci\u003eThey Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us\u003c\/i\u003e (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), \u003ci\u003eGo Ahead in the Rain: A Tribe Called Quest\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Texas Press, 2019), and \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766254305568,"sku":"9781646052257","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b5173513d57c4ac7db41149997c4cea5.webp?v=1780288385","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/motherfield-poems-belarusian-protest-diary-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}