Poetry. Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and COLLECTED BODY is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths. "Death hands you every new day like a golden coin," she writes, then warns that as the bribe grows "it gets harder to turn down."

"Mort's style—tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism—recalls the great Polish poets Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska."—Los Angeles Times

Author City: BALTIMORE, MD USA

Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus. Her first book of poetry, I'm as Thin as Your Eyelashes, came out in Belarus in 2005. In 2004 in Slovenia she received a Crystal Vilencia Award for best poetry performance. She was the recipient, in 2005, of a Gaude Polonia scholarship in Poland, and, in 2006, of a writing fellowship from Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Germany. Her American debut, FACTORY OF TEARS, appeared in 2008 and she was featured on the cover of Poets & Writers. She lives in the United States.

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