night truck driver - 49 poems

A rebel "outsider" poet reflects on life, evil, love, and death, while "observing the advance of darkness."

About the author

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese is a writer, translator and scholar who moves between English, Polish and Danish. Her translation of Nothing More, by Krystyna Miłobędzka, was shortlisted for the 2015 Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize. She translated Salt Monody, poems by Marzanna Kielar, and co-edited Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird: Poetry from Poland, both published by Zephyr Press. She is a contributing editor for Poetry Wales, and for 20 years, co-edited Przekładaniec, a scholarly journal of literary translation. She lives in Copenhagen.

Summary

A rebel “outsider” poet reflects on life, evil, love, and death, while “observing the advance of darkness.”

Foreword

Brings one of the most versatile and interesting Polish poets to English readers for the first time;

Bilingual (Polish and English) poems on facing pages;

Recent Zephyr Eastern European titles have won or been short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Translation Award, the PEN Poetry in Translation Award, the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and the Found in Translation Prize;

Many of the book’s poems have been recorded as rock songs by the poet’s two rock bands;

Translator is an award-winning translator of Polish literature.

Product details

• Authors: Marcin Swietlicki, Marcin Świetlicki
• Assisted by: El& Wojcik-Leese (Translation), Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese (Translation), El& Wójcik-Leese (Translation), Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781938890802
• ISBN: 978-1-938890-80-2
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: New Polish Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places