Dear Ms. Schubert - Poems By Ewa Lipska

Résumé

The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska’s exciting “Dear Ms. Schubert” poems

Ewa Lipska is one of Europe’s most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first complete collection of her remarkable poetic postcards addressed to “Ms. Schubert,” a mysterious contemporary European everywoman.

Written by a certain Mr. Schmetterling (“Mr. Butterfly”), these brief, intimate poems are by turns philosophical, political, and playfully erotic. Combining subversive wit and surrealist imagery, they slowly reveal the contours of a shared secret life played out against a turbulent historical backdrop—a relationship that strikes a precarious balance between deep cultural skepticism and authentic love.

Featuring the original Polish text and the English translation on facing pages, Dear Ms. Schubert is a highly original and appealing book from a poet who richly deserves a wide English-language readership.

Texte suppl.

"The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of Dear Ms. Schubert are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm."---Alice-Catherine Carls, World Literature Today

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ewa Lipska, Lipska Ewa
• Collaboration: Robin Davidson (Traduction), Davidson Robin (Traduction), Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska (Traduction), Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska (Traduction)
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780691207490
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20749-0
• Pages: 168
• Thème: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre > Poésie; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Poetry, Poland, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / European / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Literary studies: poetry and poets