Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love – detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story “A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.”—Polish Book Institute Różycki collects moments of illumination – a cat dashing out of a window and "feral sun" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany. Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of…mehr
Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love – detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story “A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.”—Polish Book Institute Różycki collects moments of illumination – a cat dashing out of a window and "feral sun" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany. Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot: fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits "this is the story of my confusion," and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail. "This lunacy needs a full investigation," he jibes. He wants to get to the bottom of it all, but he's often bewitched by letters and the trickery of language. Diacritics on Polish words form a "flock of sooty flecks, clinging to letters" and Lieutenant Anielewicz studies the tails, accents, and strokes that twist this script. While the Lieutenant can't write a coherent code to solve life's mysteries or to fill the absence of a country rent by war, his search for patterns throughout art, philosophy, and literature lead not to despair but to an affirmation of the importance of human love
TOMASZ RÓŻYCKI is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and prose. Over the last decade he has garnered almost every prize Poland has to offer as well as widespread critical acclaim, with work translated into numerous languages and frequent appearances at international festivals. In the U.S., he has been featured at the Unterberg Poetry Center, the Princeton Poetry Festival, and the Brooklyn Book Festival. His volume Colonies (translated by Mira Rosenthal) won the Northern California Book Award and was a finalist for numerous other prizes, including the International Griffin Poetry Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. MIRA ROSENTHAL is the author of The Local World, which won the Wick Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Stanford University’s Stegner Fellowship, and her work appears regularly in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Guernica, Harvard Review, New England Review, A Public Space, and Oxford American. Her honors include a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, and residencies at Hedgebrook and MacDowell. She teaches creative writing at Cal Poly and lives on the central coast of California.
Inhaltsangabe
I: Vacuum Theory
1. Meadow 2. White Dwarf 3. Scenario 4. To Give Water to the Thirsty 5. First Poem for Menelik 6. The Garden 7. Phantom 8. The Third Millennium 9. When Do Acacias Bloom? 10. The Place of “I” 11. The Clock 12. Twelve Letters 13. Pointers 14. Heat Wave 15. The Crisis of Polish Readership 16. There Is No Answer 17. Ż/Ś 18. Lavinia 19. Vacuum Theory 20. Mirror 21. Elements 22. The Measure of All Things 23. A Room 24. Dog 25. A Few Hours 26. Rain 27. A Photograph 28. Wild Strawberries 29. Updraft 30. Poor Painters 31. Via Giulia 32. Metamorphoses 33. At the End of the Day
II: The Third Planet
34. Chaos Theory 35. Effigy 36. Ghost 37. Message 38. Inheritance 39. A Turn 40. Essential Features 41. Hair by Hair 42. The Eternal War of Opposites 43. Glass Houses 44. This Era 45. Clay 46. Contract 47. Cocoon 48. Settings 49. Euromaidan 50. An Act of Speech 51. Lacki Brzeg, Ukraine 52. In the Cave 53. Revenge Bank 54. Squiggle 55. My Consultants 56. Warsaw Saw War 57. Demolition 58. Two Days’ Time 59. The Third Planet 60. Rhythm, Order and Position 61. Distillery 62. Even Now 63. The Crisis of the Polish State 64. Wind 65. Stone 66. What of Him?
III: Summer of Music
67. Summer of Music 68. Sorting 69. Why 70. Scent 71. Formula 72. Summertime 73. Porta Susa 74. The Law of Conservation of Energy 75. The Warmest Place 76. All-Night Shops 77. Any Number 78. The Crisis of Readership 79. Spring Awakening 80. Virus 81. Puzzle 82. Features 83. Piazza del Nettuno 84. An Unexpected Turn of Events 85. The Silk Road 86. Reverse 87. In the Bushes 88. A Glass 89. This Dog’s Life 90. Outside Prudnik 91. Backpack 92. Never 93. Shadow 94. What Makes No Motion? 95. The Cave of the Nymphs 96. The Divine Comedy 97. Second Poem for Menelik 98. The Trail Goes Cold 99. Open
1. Meadow 2. White Dwarf 3. Scenario 4. To Give Water to the Thirsty 5. First Poem for Menelik 6. The Garden 7. Phantom 8. The Third Millennium 9. When Do Acacias Bloom? 10. The Place of “I” 11. The Clock 12. Twelve Letters 13. Pointers 14. Heat Wave 15. The Crisis of Polish Readership 16. There Is No Answer 17. Ż/Ś 18. Lavinia 19. Vacuum Theory 20. Mirror 21. Elements 22. The Measure of All Things 23. A Room 24. Dog 25. A Few Hours 26. Rain 27. A Photograph 28. Wild Strawberries 29. Updraft 30. Poor Painters 31. Via Giulia 32. Metamorphoses 33. At the End of the Day
II: The Third Planet
34. Chaos Theory 35. Effigy 36. Ghost 37. Message 38. Inheritance 39. A Turn 40. Essential Features 41. Hair by Hair 42. The Eternal War of Opposites 43. Glass Houses 44. This Era 45. Clay 46. Contract 47. Cocoon 48. Settings 49. Euromaidan 50. An Act of Speech 51. Lacki Brzeg, Ukraine 52. In the Cave 53. Revenge Bank 54. Squiggle 55. My Consultants 56. Warsaw Saw War 57. Demolition 58. Two Days’ Time 59. The Third Planet 60. Rhythm, Order and Position 61. Distillery 62. Even Now 63. The Crisis of the Polish State 64. Wind 65. Stone 66. What of Him?
III: Summer of Music
67. Summer of Music 68. Sorting 69. Why 70. Scent 71. Formula 72. Summertime 73. Porta Susa 74. The Law of Conservation of Energy 75. The Warmest Place 76. All-Night Shops 77. Any Number 78. The Crisis of Readership 79. Spring Awakening 80. Virus 81. Puzzle 82. Features 83. Piazza del Nettuno 84. An Unexpected Turn of Events 85. The Silk Road 86. Reverse 87. In the Bushes 88. A Glass 89. This Dog’s Life 90. Outside Prudnik 91. Backpack 92. Never 93. Shadow 94. What Makes No Motion? 95. The Cave of the Nymphs 96. The Divine Comedy 97. Second Poem for Menelik 98. The Trail Goes Cold 99. Open
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