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Synopsis
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk. Foreword by Jericho Brown. "In the same way that memory gave birth to the muses, Anna Swir crafted exquisite mnemonic miniatures thirty years after the Warsaw Uprising, miniatures that allowed human hope to shine through bloody rubble. Reading Swir, one longs to know this heroic poet, who, like Whitman, nursed humans broken by war. Piotr Florczyk translates the poems...
About the Author
Born in 1909 in Warsaw, Poland, Anna Swir (Świrszczyńska) is widely considered to be one of Poland's most distinguished poets. Profoundly marked by World War II, especially the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, during which she volunteered as a nurse, Swir explored in her poems the joys and horrors of human nature and the female body. She died in Kraków in 1984.
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- PublisherCalypso Editions
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 098309991X
- ISBN 13 9780983099918
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages68
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