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Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems

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Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz Róźewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Róźewicz'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 glassesI forgot there was history Caesar Hitler Mata HariStalin capitalism communismEinstein Picasso Al CaponeAlka Seltzer Al Qaeda

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: January 31, 2011

ISBN: 0393067793

ISBN 13: 9780393067798

Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz Róźewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Róźewicz'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 glassesI forgot there was history Caesar Hitler Mata HariStalin capitalism communismEinstein Picasso Al CaponeAlka Seltzer Al Qaeda

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: January 31, 2011

ISBN: 0393067793

ISBN 13: 9780393067798

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