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Valzhyna Mort

Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus (former Soviet Union), in 1981, and moved to the United States in 2005. She published her first book of poetry, I’m as Thin as Your Eyelashes, in Belarus. In 2008, Copper Canyon Press published her debut American collection as a bilingual edition called Factory of Tears. Her latest book, Collected Body, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon.

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Grandmother

Fall 2011 | Poetry

my little grandmother
knows no pain
she believes that
hunger—is food

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Grandmother

Fall 2011 | Poetry

my little grandmother
knows no pain
she believes that
hunger—is food

[...]

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Voices

Fall 2011 | Poetry

That night I read The Revolt of the Masses not yet knowing
that at that same hour they
set houses on fire. They say,
an old woman tossed in flames trying

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