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Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, and has won several literary awards for her poetry.
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Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort will present her poetry during the Central Lakes College Verse Like Water program Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Submitted Photo
The Central Lakes College Verse Like Water program will host poet Valzhyna Mort for a free virtual reading at noon Tuesday, April 27.
Born in Minsk, Belarus, Mort made her American debut in 2008 with the poetry collection “Factory of Tears,” co-translated by the husband and wife team of Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright.
Mort is also the author of ”Collected Body” and her most recent collection ”Music for the Dead and Resurrected.”
A Note from the Poetry Editor
Poets must speak of their time, Czeslaw Milosz often told his students. And so they, in very different ways, do. Karim Fawzi, in a poem dated June 9th, 2003, speaks of berries and Baghdad, and of beating his present existence with the cane of departure, while Valzhyna Mort tells us about the fate of her generation in post-Soviet (but still totalitarian) Belarus.
As you will browse through the pages of this special all poetry issue of
Words Without Borders you will discover many images, details, the tiniest moments tied together by emotion, wonder, rhythm. Thus, Gloria Fuertes s vigor, Daniil Kharms s theatrics of marvel, and Goran Sonnevi s passion for the smallest of details, for The visions of birds / she and B had together, that attentiveness. Why such attentiveness in poetry? Why images-so many of them, reoccurring in poem after poem, line after line? Attentiveness, Paul Celan teaches us, is the natural prayer of the soul. As for images, th