Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Factory of Tears and Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2008 and 2011 respectively). Mort has received the 2009 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the 2010 Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Burda Prize for Eastern European authors. Mort writes poems simultaneously in Belarusian and English.
Five hundred places is
a press established by Jason Dodge in an attempt to bring new readers to some of the poets that have been so important to his thinking and working over the past decades.
Jason Dodge is an artist featured in the
exhibition A Model.
Language: English
Dimensions: 11 x 16 cm
Author: Valzhyna Mort
Publisher: Fivehundredplaces
ISBN: ISBN 978-5-907183-18-6
