Valzhyna Mort is a poet born in Minsk, Belarus (the former Soviet Union), now living in the United States. Mort has written and published three poetry collections in English, including most recently Music for the Dead and Resurrected (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) for which she received the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. Owen Good is a Northern Irish translator of Hungarian poetry and prose. Most recently Good translated Krisztina Tóth’s short story cycle Pixel (Seagull Books, 2019). He is editor of The Continental Literary Magazine and Hungarian Literature Online.
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Animals, language, and Dadaistic gestures collide in this poem by Hungarian poet Kinga Tóth, in a translation by Belarussian poet Valzhyna Mort with Owen Good.
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