Born in Belarus and now teaching at the University of Baltimore, Valzhyna Mort is an acclaimed writer and poet who made her debut in 2005 with her first poetry book, I'm as Thin as Your Eyelashes.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Valzhyna Mort about her poetry amid the political crisis in Belarus. Her new book of poems is called Music for the... 'I Was Drafted Into Music,' Says Poet Valzhyna Mort ...

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This exceptional collection from the Belarus-born poet digs into what happens when the self goes missing in an authoritarian regime Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, moved to the US in 2005 ...

Growing up in Minsk, in the nineteen-eighties, the poet Valzhyna Mort spoke Russian at home and studied Belarusian in school. Now she has written a collection of poems, “Music for the Dead and ...

The elegiac third collection from Mort asks searing, meditative questions born from war, massacre, and famine. “What has kept us alive,” Mort asks before answering, “Our death songs.” These poems are ...

Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort; Out for Air by Olly Todd; Hiding to Nothing by Anita Pati; Emblem by Lucy Mercer; The Golden Thread by Amali Gunasekera Music for the Dead and ...

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Valzhyna Mort started playing accordion when she was six. She took it seriously. "I played it for a good 10 years," she says, "practicing daily under my grandmother's very strict watch." And when she ...