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Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz
Tadeusz Rozewicz
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Paperback. "An anti-poet relentlessly, even ruthlessly determined to tell the truth, however painful it may be."-Edward Hirsch Translator(s): Trzeciak, Joanna. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz Rózewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Rózewicz's supernatural simplicity, his stark diction and sudden turns.
Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz Rózewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Rózewicz's supernatural simplicity, his stark diction and sudden turns.
From "regression into the primordial soup"
finally I too came into the world
in the year 1921 and suddenly . . .
atchoo! time passes I am old and forgot where I put my glasses
I forgot there was
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393345551
SKU
V9780393345551
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About Tadeusz Rozewicz
Tadeusz Rózewicz was born in Poland in 1921. He is a major poet and playwright. Joanna Trzeciak's translations include Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Heldt Translation Prize. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Edward Hirsch has published seven books of poems, including Special Orders. He lives in New York City.
Reviews for Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz
"Striking . . . chilling. . . . [Rozewicz’s work] embodies that particular anxiety and familiar sense of diminishment we still associate with being ‘modern.’"
The Nation "Rozewicz is that rare character—a skeptic as full of passion as of intelligence, of warmth as wariness."
judges’ citation, Griffin Poetry Prize "Instead of answers, the poet offers only an examination. ... Read more
The Nation "Rozewicz is that rare character—a skeptic as full of passion as of intelligence, of warmth as wariness."
judges’ citation, Griffin Poetry Prize "Instead of answers, the poet offers only an examination. ... Read more