{"product_id":"music-for-the-dead-and-resurrected-poems-9780374603243","title":"Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort's \u003ci\u003eMusic for the Dead and Resurrected\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet's voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eValzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMort, Valzhyna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eValzhyna Mort\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eFactory of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCollected Body.\u003c\/i\u003e She has received the Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, the Amy Clampitt Residency, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she writes in English and Belarusian.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525537927442,"sku":"9780374603243","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef595c79-f730-4441-af8c-c4d5c9f7f3d4.jpg?v=1731225962","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/music-for-the-dead-and-resurrected-poems-9780374603243","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}