Poetry books from Belarus
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If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from Belarus for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Motherfield : Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva EN
Description:
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 frien... continue