Mort, Valzhyna / Wright, Elizabeth Oehlkers & Wright, Franz (trs.): Factory of Tears

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 runningand bashing his headagainst a cement wallthe cement grows warmand he curls up with itagainst his cheeklike a starfish . . .