{"product_id":"collected-body-9781556593727","title":"Collected Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort''s poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight.\"—\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mort''s style—tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism—recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and \u003ci\u003eCollected Body\u003c\/i\u003e is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths. \"Death hands you every new day like a golden coin,\" she writes, then warns that as the bribe grows \"it gets harder to turn down.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Preface\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eon a bare tree—\u003cbr\u003ea red beast,\u003cbr\u003eso still, it has become the tree.\u003cbr\u003enow it''s the tree that prowls over the beast,\u003cbr\u003ea cautious beast itself.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ea stone thrown at its breast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis so fast—the stone has become the beast.\u003cbr\u003enow it''s the beast that throws itself like a stone,\u003cbr\u003eblood like a dog-rose tree on a windy day,\u003cbr\u003eand the moon is trying on your face\u003cbr\u003efor the annual masquerade of the dead.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003edeath decides to wait to hear more.\u003cbr\u003eso death mews:\u003cbr\u003efirst—your story, then—me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eValzhyna Mort\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Minsk, Belarus. Her American debut, \u003ci\u003eFactory of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2008 and she was featured on the cover of \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received many honors and awards, including a Civitella Raineri fellowship. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359611617623,"sku":"9781556593727","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556593727.jpg?v=1754125172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/collected-body-9781556593727","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}