"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

Literature & Fiction

Tadeusz Różewicz

Poetry

W.W.Norton&Company

The translation of Felicja Kruszewska's A Dream introduces a major play by a twentieth-century female playwright to the English-speaking world. On March 7, 1927 A Dream - a large-scale expressionistic drama by an unknown poet - burst on the Polish theatrical scene in a dazzling debut production by the young actor Edmund Wiercinski, who would become one of the outstanding directors of his time. The play's hallucinatory visions of the rise of fascism and the heroine's longing for a providential savior on a white horse spoke directly to Polish audiences about their deepest anxieties. During the next two years A Dream received three additional stagings and became the subject of lively debate and controversy. The play, which has been successfully revived in 1974, is an outstanding example of European expressionism.  The volume also contains An Excursion to the Museum, by the contemporary Polish poet, playwright, and short-story writer Tadeusz Rozewicz. A disturbing account of an utterly mundane visit to Auschwitz, the tale is a brilliant example of the playwright's technique of poetic collage.

A Dream / An Excursion to the Museum (Polish and East European Theatre Archive)

Felicja Kruszewska

Dramas & Plays

Routledge Harwood

Tadeusz Rózewicz was born in 1921 in Radomsko. With Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert, he is a major figure 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. We learnt language from scratch, those people and I.' Distrusting myths and archetypes, and rejecting traditional aesthetic values which struck him as offensive and gratuitous in the face of what he had witnessed, Rózewicz 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 Rózewicz's poetry is far from being confined to recording the horrors of the past. He is committed to poetry as a way of life, to the transmutation of a whole world of experience, from the seemingly trivial to the profound. He is a natural social realist whose subject-matter is extremely varied; his delight in ordinary human existence, and the precision with which he traces it, make him a rich, humane and very accessible poet. His poetry translates effectively in its clarity of expression and outline. This selection, the most extensive to appear in English, is drawn from thirty-five years of Rózewicz's prolific writing and will confirm his standing as a major European poet of our time.

Conversation With the Prince and Other Poems (English and Polish Edition)

Anvil Press Poetry

Mother Departs

A unique mix of prose and poetry, of the joy of life and the agony of loss, in Mother Departs Rozewicz creates a rich and complex portrait of his mother Stefania and of her indelible influence on her extraordinary family. Weaving together fragments from diaries, stories and notebooks - including moving texts written by his two brothers and Stefania herself - Rozewicz creates a portrait of their lives and relationships which is sometimes brutal, often hilarious, and always tender. Here is an artist attempting to give form, even meaning, to life  -  and death.

Stork Press Ltd

Kartoteka rozrzucona

Literackie

Credo

Biuro Literackie

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