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. But 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.
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