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In her book of letters to the dead the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. In Music for the Dead and ResurrectedValzhyna Mort asks how we mourn after a century of silence and propaganda. How do we remember our history and sing after being silenced? Mort draws on intimate and paradoxical first-hand accounts of a pastIn her book of letters to the dead the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. In Music for the Dead and ResurrectedValzhyna Mort asks how we mourn after a century of silence and propaganda. How do we remember our history and sing after being silenced? Mort draws on intimate and paradoxical first-hand accounts of a past grandparent generation of the Soviet labor camps redistribution of land and massacres of World War II in Belarus. As her country is being run by a long-time dictator the poet creates a ceremony of myth making for the erased history and family.Music for the Dead and Resurrected is a space where the living and the dead can coexist sharing stories where the Belarusian woods can act as witnesses of forgotten lives and where musical form can create a new lyric mythology and an uncompromised language of remembrance. Mort born in Belarus and now living in America teaches us that the remembrance of private histories has a power to confront collective violent American myths....more

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