{"product_id":"motherfield-poems-belarusian-protest-diary-9781646052257","title":"Motherfield: Poems \u0026 Belarusian Protest Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, \u003ci\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/i\u003e is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eJulia 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Phoneme Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646052257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs","brand":"Julia Cimafiejeva","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42406059245749,"sku":"9781646052257","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_da0721e7-782d-4f30-8730-fb09fe80df94.jpg?v=1664285736","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/motherfield-poems-belarusian-protest-diary-9781646052257","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}