Motherfield: Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva, translated by Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib media Within living memory

Within living memory

construction work

Lela knows two things: her history teacher must die and she must start a new life beyond the pear field

Despite it all

or even his own

Motherfield: Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva, translated by Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib media Within living memoryJulia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poets diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poets 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