institut lyrische fehlschlaegeDisplacement presupposes a place of belonging left behind, a source of nostalgia.
A misplaced person doesn’t have such a place. A misplaced person submits to the fact that she has no other country but herself.
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Interview with Valzhyna Mort - The White Review
How can we mourn the dead within the context of historical violence, trauma and political oppression? How can their memory be honoured? And what is the role of music and poetry in such an endeavour? The incendiary, intensely memorable poems in Valzhyna Mort’s third collection Music for the Dead and…