Sobbing Superpower
Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz
Tadeusz Rozewicz author Joanna Trzeciak translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:3rd May '13
Should be back in stock very soon
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
history Caesar Hitler Mata Hari
Stalin capitalism communism
Einstein Picasso Al Capone
Alka Seltzer Al Qaeda
"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. Like it or not, he says, this is all we have: a fragment, a glimpse, a rustle." -- New Republic
ISBN: 9780393345551
Dimensions: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
Weight: 527g
368 pages