| Description |
364 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Rose -- Mask -- A Crumb -- Lament -- Double Sentence -- To the Dead -- Survivor -- The Magician's Apprentice -- The Living Were Dying -- Of My House -- Parting -- As You're Leaving -- Purification -- Chestnut Tree -- The Wall -- Was -- Butcher's Booths -- But Whoever Sees... -- How Wonderful -- (Here is a man) -- The Black Bus -- Pigtail -- A Reply -- Return to the Forest -- Plains (part III) -- My Lips -- Love 1944 -- Father -- Old Jewish Cemetery at Lesko -- An Open Poem -- Golden Mountains -- Leave Us Alone -- In the Middle of Life -- Posthumous Exoneration -- Forms -- I Lack Courage -- Outstretched -- Dismantled -- The Tower -- The Door -- Ina Hurry -- Letter to the Cannibals -- The Return -- Fear -- New Comparisons -- Green Rose -- In the Light of Day |
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Lifting Off the Weight -- I Was Writing -- Nothing in Prospero's Robes -- From a Biographical Note -- (At dawn the light) -- Notes Toward a Contemporary Love Poem -- The Story of Old Women -- Dialogue -- Non-Stop Show -- My Poetry -- Homework Assignment on the Subject of Angels -- Autumnal -- Grass -- July 11, 1968. Rain -- (Will something bad happen to me?) -- (ten years ago) -- (the face of the motherland...) -- (I waded through the dream) -- Photograph -- The Boat -- I Am Noman -- The Poet While Writing -- They Came to See a Poet -- Love Toward the Ashes -- On Felling a Tree -- The Poet's Return -- A Poem -- All of a Sudden -- Chiaroscuro -- without -- (poetry doesn't always) -- (Time hastens) -- (black stains are white) -- "Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland" -- Conversation with a Friend -- Pig Roast -- Francis Bacon or Diego Velázquez in the dentist's chair |
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(An empty room) -- what would I miss -- poet emeritus -- From Mouth to Mouth -- In a Hotel -- recycling -- Unde malum? -- the professor's knife -- the gate -- Ghost Ship -- stick on water -- rain in Kraków -- cobweb -- gray area -- regression into the primordial soup (die Ursuppe) -- (And once again) -- Alarm Clock -- Too Bad -- why do I write? -- Escape of the Two Piglets -- Sobbing Superpower -- (white is neither sad) -- philosopher's stone -- words -- avalanche -- my old Guardian Angel -- golden thoughts against a dark background -- a fairy tale -- a finger to the lips -- the last conversation -- heart rises to throat -- eternal return... -- philosophers -- so what it's a dream -- farewell to Raskolnikov -- one of the Church Fathers of poetry -- You don't do that to Kafka -- Mr. Pongo -- temptations -- A normal poet -- (You tend to come at times) -- Mystery that Grows. |
| Summary |
Starting with his first collection, Anxiety, in 1947, published in the wake of the Holocaust, R=zewicz's poetry is haunted by the failure of our civilization to save humanity. His poetry after Auschwitz is an anti-poetry: simple, minimalist, powerful, and raw. The denial of history, our ruthless exploitation of nature, excessive consumerism, and the commodification of everythingùincluding dissentùare the targets of his more recent kaleidoscopic poems. Now in his late eighties, R=zewicz remains vital and nourishing. |
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In this new collection, spanning his career from 1947 to the present, Joanna Trzeciak brilliantly captures R=zewicz's brutal simplicity, his stark diction and sudden turns. --Book Jacket. |
| Subject |
Różewicz, Tadeusz -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Trzeciak, Joanna, translator.
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Hirsch, Edward, author of introduction, etc.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
9780393067798 |
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0393067793 |
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