Fr. 20.90

night truck driver - 49 poems

English · Paperback / Softback

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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

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