Hanif Abdurraqib

Valzhyna Mort

Julia Cimafiejeva

Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary

Motherfield

anna g

I’m so glad that a book like this exists. It opens with the authors protest diary from 2020-2021, following another ‘election’ in Belarus. Even during these entries she muses about what is the point of making art when the world is ending and especially in the post-Soviet world where leaders remain in charge in perpetuity and rights slowly get stripped away. 

The first poem “the stone of fear” for lack of a better word absolutely gagged me. She also writes about her home becoming a Chernobyl exclusion zone, and the grief of not being able to explain why you had to leave.

 INCREDIBLE!!!

Motherfield Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary

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