Research Catalog

Title

Factory of tears / Valzhyna Mort ; translated from Belarusian by the author and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Franz Wright.

Author

Mort, Valzhyna, 1981-

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wright, Elizabeth Oehlkers
• Wright, Franz, 1953-2015
• Mort, Valzhyna, 1981-
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

viii, 116 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Presents a bilingual collection of the young author's poems in English and Belarusian on facing pages, examining themes of violence, victimhood, beauty, pop culture, and difficult circumstances.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English & Belarusian

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Mort, Valzhyna, 1981- > Translations into English
• 2000-2099
• Belarusian poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• "A Lannan literary selection"--P. [4] of cover.
• Poems.

Language (note)

• Poems in Belarusian and English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Belarusian -- for A.B. -- A poem about white apples -- Grandmother -- "maybe you too sometimes fantasize" -- A portrait of a mother in fall -- Juveniles -- Marriage -- Hospital -- "was it a hair you lost" -- Music of locusts -- Lullaby -- in memory of a book -- "i'm as thin" -- White trash -- "your body is so white" -- "memory" -- On a steamer -- Fall in Tampa -- From Florida beaches -- Polish immigrants -- Cry me a river -- "the memory of you" -- Password -- "You see your life as something borrowed" -- Promised land -- for Rafal Wojaczek -- Berlin-Minsk -- New York -- Men -- Alcohol -- for I. -- Teacher -- Origin of tears -- Belarusian II -- Factory of tears.

ISBN

• 9781556592744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1556592744 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007034880

OCLC

• 168716166
• SCSB-11458440

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library