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'Zekameron' comes from 'Zek' meaning prisoner and is a word-play on Boccaccio's Decameron. 'He came back from interrogation looking like death. Some people look better than he did when they're being put in their coffin. "What happened then? Did they stick any other articles of the Criminal Code on you? Or break your jaw?" "Nothing like that. I've got toothache..." The 100 tales in Zekameron are based on the 14th Century Decameron, but Znak is closer to Beckett than to Boccaccio. Banality and brutality vie with the human ability to overcome oppression. Znak's stories in different voices chart 100 days in prison in Belarus today. The tone is laconic, ironic; the humour sparse. The stories bear witness to resistance and self-assertion and the genuine warmth and appreciation of fellow prisoners.
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 the eyes. Valzhyna Mort's work is characterised by a memorial sensibility that honours those lost to the violences of nation states. In Music for the Dead and Resurrected the poet offers us a body of work which 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.
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.
"Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal" "A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight."--"Midwest Book Review" "Mort's style--tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism--recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska."--"Los Angeles Times" Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and "Collected Body" is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths. "Death hands you every new day like a golden coin," she writes, then warns that as the bribe grows "it gets harder to turn down." "Preface" "on a bare tree-- "a stone thrown at its breast "death decides to wait to hear more. Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus. Her American debut, "Factory of Tears," appeared in 2008 and she was featured on the cover of "Poets & Writers." She has received many honors and awards, including a Civitella Raineri fellowship. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
"Valzyhna Mort . . . can justly be described as a risen star of the international poetry world. Her poems have something of the incantatory quality of poets such as Dylan Thomas or Allen Ginsberg. . . . She is a true original."-Cuirt International Festival of Literature "[T]he searing work of Valzhyna Mort . . . dazzled all who were fortunate to hear her [and] to be battered by the moods of the Belarus language which she is passionately battling to save from obscurity."-"The Irish Times" Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic young poet who writes in Belarussian at a time when efforts are being made to reestablish the traditional language in the aftermath of attempts to absorb it into Russian. Known throughout Europe for her live readings, Mort's poetry and performances are infused by the politics of language and the poetry of revolution, where poems are prayers and weapons. "when someone spends a lot of time running Valzhyna Mort is a Belarussian poet known throughout Europe for her remarkable reading performances. Her poetry has been translated into several languages, and she is the recipient of the Gaude Polonia stipendium and was a poet-in-residence at Literarisches Colloquium in Berlin, Germany. She currently lives in Virginia. Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright earned an MFA in translation from the University of Arkansas. Franz Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his book "Walking to Martha's Vineyard."
"Something Indecent" is intended as a kind of symposium on European
poetry. Seven contemporary Eastern European poets--Adam Zagajewski,
Vera Pavlova, Tomaž salamun, Ales steger, Nikola Madzirov,
Eugenijus Alisanka, and editor Valzhyna Mort--introduce us to poems
by writers who have become for them windows onto the world. They
were asked: Who are the best representative poets of your region?
Your generation? And, more broadly: Who are your favorite European
poets of the 20th century? What European poets, across the
millennia, are most important to an understanding of your
particular region? Spanning thousands of years and thousands of
miles, their surprising, often unpredictable choices--and the
reasons for those choices--are collected here, forming the latest
entry in a poetic conversation carried across centuries, countries,
and traditions. More than a presentation of contemporary Eastern
European poets, "Something Indecent" is a conversation about how
European poets view themselves, their contemporaries, their
century, and the place of their region in the millennia.
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