Translated by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright & Franz Wright.
Copper Canyon Press, paperback
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher Marketing: Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic young poet who writes in Belarusian 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 . . .
