Mort is a fireball.
She lives in Baltimore, Maryland..
She has received many honors and awards, including a Civitella Raineri fellowship.
Her American debut, Factory of Tears , appeared in 2008 and she was featured on the cover of Poets & Writers .
Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus. so death mews: first--your story, then--me. death decides to wait to hear more. now it\'s the beast that throws itself like a stone, blood like a dog-rose tree on a windy day, and the moon is trying on your face for the annual masquerade of the dead. a stone thrown at its breast is so fast--the stone has become the beast. now it\'s the tree that prowls over the beast, a cautious beast itself.
Preface on a bare tree-- a red beast, so still, it has become the tree.
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.
Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths.
Highly recommended.-- Library Journal A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight.-- Midwest Book Review Mort\'s style--tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism--recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska.-- Los Angeles Times Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and Collected Body is her first collection composed in English.
Personal, political, and passionate, Mort\'s poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. . . .
Mort is a fireball
