Adam Czerniawski writes distinctive, challenging, and engaging poems, and since the late seventies has established himself as a significant presence in Polish poetry. Influenced by the remarkable international and multicultural experiences of his childhood, recounted in his memoir, Scenes from a Disturbed Childhood, Czerniawski poems show a profound concern with language, consciousness, experience, identity, and culture.In poem after poem Czerniawski debates, enacts or meditates obliquely on puzzles and questions of perception, memory, and representation, offering his readers the pleasures of watching a highly conscious and cultured Anglo-Polish-indeed, European-mind at work and play.A compact disc featuring readings of a selection of the poems in Polish and in English accompany this book.Adam Czerniawski was born in 1934 in Warsaw and left Poland in 1941. From 1941 to 1947 he lived in the Middle East. In 1947 he began his studies at the universities of London, Sussex, and Oxfo

Tadeusz Rozewicz: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Różewicz, Tadeusz

Poetry

Penguin

"An anti-poet relentlessly, even ruthlessly determined to tell the truth, however painful it may be."―Edward Hirsch Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz Rózewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Rózewicz's supernatural simplicity, his stark diction and sudden turns. From "regression into the primordial soup" finally I too came into the world in the year 1921 and suddenly . . . atchoo! time passes I am old and forgot where I put my glasses I forgot there was history Caesar Hitler Mata Hari Stalin capitalism communism Einstein Picasso Al Capone Alka Seltzer Al Qaeda

Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Róźewicz

W.W.Norton&Company

Card Index and Other Plays

GROVE PRESS

The Survivors and Other Poems (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

The description for this book, The Survivors and Other Poems, will be forthcoming.

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, The Survivors and Other Poems, will be forthcoming.

The Card Index and Other Plays (Playscript 8)

Marion Boyars

Mariage Blanc is a tragic farce set in a middle class household in Poland of the late nineteenth century and concerns itself with "respectable" attitudes towards love and sex in the society of that period. The Hunger Artist Departs takes its origin and inspiration from a short story by Kafka in which a showman travels from town to town with his inpressarion , starving himself for long periods of time for people's amusement.

Mariage Blanc and the Hunger Artist Departs: Two Plays (English and Polish Edition)

Dramas & Plays

Mariage Blanc is a tragic farce set in a middle class household in Poland of the late nineteenth century and concerns itself with "respectable" attitudes towards love and sex in the society of that period. The Hunger Artist Departs takes its origin and inspiration from a short story by Kafka in which a showman travels from town to town with his inpressarion , starving himself for long periods of time for people's amusement.

Mariage Blanc & Hunger Artist Departs: Two Plays

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

In his remand cell, a small-time petty criminal surrenders himself to the sadistic fantasties of hatred, rage and despair that are trapped inside him. This terrifying, claustrophobic descent into the isolated mind of a man locked away from society becomes, in Selby's compassionate literary tour de force, a challeging vision of a world deprived of love. The blistering follow-up to Selby's best-selling cult classic Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room still has the power to provoke, to chill and to disturb

Reading The Apocalypse In Bed: Selected Plays and Short Pieces

Tadeusz Rozewicz is one of the outstanding figures in the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. 'What I produced is poetry for the horror-stricken. For those abandoned to butchery. For survivors.' Distrusting myths and archetypes, and rejecting traditional aesthetic values which struck him as offensive and gratuitous in the face of what he had witnessed, Rozewicz created a stark, direct poetry devoid of embellishment and rooted in common speech, fashioned as he has written 'out of a remnant of words, salvaged words, out of uninteresting words, words from the great rubbish dump, the great cemetery.'But Rozewicz's poetry is far from being confined to recording the horrors of the past. He is a natural social realist whose subject-matter has a very wide range, including friendship, love, eroticism, art, religion, ageing, death and the anxieties of modern civilisation. The appearance of this substantial selection, which is drawn from more than forty years of Rozewicz's prolific writing, coincides with his seventieth birthday.

They Came to See a Poet: Selected Poems

Dufour Editions

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Books by Różewicz, Tadeusz

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Tadeusz Rozewicz: Selected Poems

Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Róźewicz

Card Index and Other Plays

The Survivors and Other Poems (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

The Survivors and Other Poems (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

The Card Index and Other Plays (Playscript 8)

Mariage Blanc and the Hunger Artist Departs: Two Plays (English and Polish Edition)

Mariage Blanc & Hunger Artist Departs: Two Plays

Reading The Apocalypse In Bed: Selected Plays and Short Pieces

They Came to See a Poet: Selected Poems