"Mort...strives to be an envoy for her native country, writing with almost alarming vociferousness about the struggle to establish a clear identity for Belarus and its language." "The New Yorker"

Valzyhna Mort . . . can justly be described as a risen star of the international poetry world. Her poems have something of the incantatory quality of poets such as Dylan Thomas or Allen Ginsberg. . . . She is a true original. Cuirt International Festival of Literature

T]he searing work of Valzhyna Mort . . . dazzled all who were fortunate to hear her and] to be battered by the moods of the...