"Valzyhna Mort . . . can justly be described as a risen star of
the international poetry world. Her poems have something of the
incantatory quality of poets such as Dylan Thomas or Allen
Ginsberg. . . . She is a true original."-Cuirt International
Festival of Literature
"[T]he searing work of Valzhyna Mort . . . dazzled all who were
fortunate to hear her [and] to be battered by the moods of the
Belarus language which she is passionately battling to save from
obscurity."-"The Irish Times"
Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic young poet who writes in Belarussian
at a time when efforts are being made to reestablish the
traditional language in the aftermath of attempts to absorb it into
Russian. Known throughout Europe for her live readings, Mort's
poetry and performances are infused by the politics of language and
the poetry of revolution, where poems are prayers and weapons.
"when someone spends a lot of time running
and bashing his head
against a cement wall
the cement grows warm
and he curls up with it
against his cheek
like a starfish . . ."
Valzhyna Mort is a Belarussian poet known throughout Europe for
her remarkable reading performances. Her poetry has been translated
into several languages, and she is the recipient of the Gaude
Polonia stipendium and was a poet-in-residence at Literarisches
Colloquium in Berlin, Germany. She currently lives in Virginia.
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright earned an MFA in translation from the
University of Arkansas. Franz Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in
Poetry for his book "Walking to Martha's Vineyard."
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