Review\n"Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism." ― New York Times\n"Dear Ms. Schubert is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world."---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books\n"Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in Dear Ms. Schubert] will discover a lovely garden of delights…The poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to read…clever and startling. ―Kyle Torke, Colorado Review"\n"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\nThe first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska’s exciting “Dear Ms. Schubert” poems\nEwa 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.\nWritten 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.\nFeaturing 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.

Dear Ms. Schubert: Poems by Ewa Lipska (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

Literature & Fiction

Lipska, Ewa

Literary

Princeton University Press

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.

Since the publication of her first book in 1967, Ewa Lipska has been among the most acclaimed of contemporary Polish poets. Yet, to date she has not enjoyed the same popularity in the United States as her fellow Poles Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, and her contemporary Adam Zagajewski. The New Century: Poems, a selection of her recent work, introduces to an American audience the work of an underappreciated master. Although Lipska’s work displays an acute awareness of history and politics, she’s nonetheless most concerned with individual experience and the most difficult philosophical questions of evil. Lipska is capable of being awed by beauty despite the deep pessimism that flows through her poems, including the failure of language itself to have any ameliorative effect on human experience.Surreal, skeptical, and laced with wit, Lipska’s poetry, like that of Milosz and Szymborska, seems to effortlessly achieve a kind of hard-won and gracefully wielded authority that tells us something essential about the legacies of the twentieth century’s horrors.

The New Century: Poems

Poetry

Northwestern University Press

Poet? Criminal? Madman?: Poems

Plebanek, Barbara

Dufour Editions

Poetic, witty, and faintly surreal, Sefer delicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation. The novel's protagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living in Vienna who finally addresses his own family background during a long postponed visit to Kraków, his father's birthplace. Much like memory itself, Sefir speaks to us obliquely, through the juxtapositioin of images and vignettes. In their translation of Ewa Lipska's first novel, Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard deftly capture the poet's unmistakable voice - cool and precise, gently ironic, and deeply humane. Born in 1945 in Kraków, Ewa Lipska is one of Poland's best-known poets. She cofounded and was for many years the poetry editor of the literary magazine Pismo, and has been recognized with the Pen Club Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement among other honors. Barbara Bogoczek, based in London, and Tony Howard, professor of English at Warwick University in Coventry, have together translated a number of works by Polish authors.

Sefer (Mingling Voices Series)

United States

Athabasca University Press

Godziny poza godzinami (Kolekcja poezji polskiej XX wieku) (Polish Edition)

Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy

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