Scattering the Dark: An Anthology of Polish Women Poets

co-op available Advance review copies to major media and literary journals Special outreach to the major Polish communities in America and to Polish and Eastern European Studies programs Book launch at AWP in LA

"What a book! The tradition of women's writing that flows out of the work of Symborska and Swir." --Robert Hass"Wow! What a book! The tradition of women's writing that flows out of the work of Symborska and Anna Swir--the way this mighty tradition turns in the hands of a younger generation from the traumatic history of their country to a poetics of everyday life, of play, and experiment. An absolutely rich and appealing book."--Robert Hass "These cosmopolitan, multilingual poets speak to us across the decades, overcoming a great silence, redirecting the myths, reimagining the role of the poet, and the nature of poetry itself. Scattering the Dark is a useful, subversive, even necessary anthology."--Edward Hirsch Scattering the Dark offers a lively selection of over thirty of Poland's women poets writing before and after the fall of communism. Karen Kovacik is a translator and poet.