Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of the poetry collections Factory of Tears and Collected Body (both published by Copper Canyon Press). She is also the editor of the anthology Something Indecent: Poems Recommended by Eastern European Poets (2013). A recipient of the Lannan Foundation Fellowship, Mort is a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University.

Photograph by Doug Barber.

Teacher

by Valzhyna Mort

If you are going to be my teacher
you will have to become a tiger

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