Writing years after terrible events which colored her life forever, Anna Stanislawska (1651-1701) meticulously reconstructed in an epic poem the episode of her forced marriage to the deviant son of the Castellan of Krak�w. He was deemed to be so ugly that Stanislawska called her new husband Aesop, who was said to have been one of the ugliest men in Antiquity.

Barry Keane's idiomatic and inventive verse translation brings to life this half-forgotten poetic account of a remarkable tale of triumph in the face of overwhelming oppression and allows Anna Stanislawska to take her place among the women poets of early modern Europe.

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Anna Stanisławska (1651–1700) was a Polish aristocrat popularly regarded as the first woman writer in Polish literature, with her unique autobiographical epic poem improbably titled Transakcyja albo Opisanie calego zycia jednej sieroty przez zalosne treny od tejze samej pisane roku (1685) [A Transaction, or an Account of the Entire Life of an Orphan Girl by way of Plaintful Threnodies]. The backdrop of Stanisławska’s life was one of war and turmoil, but the account of her life reveals a woman at odds with her clamorous and exacting age, wanting traditional happiness (grounded in a spiritual conviction and an engagement with religious devotion), but not seeking, as was often the case, wealth, title, entitlement, and prominence, all of which Stanisławska happened to possess in abundance.

Barry Keane, professor in translation and comparative studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, is the editor and translator of Anna Stanisławska, Orphan Girl, the “Aesop” episode; the “Olesnicki” episode; and the entire work, including the final “Zbaski” episode. He is the author of the monograph Irish Drama in Poland: Staging and Reception, 1900–2000 and books on the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, the Polish Renaissance and Baroque, and the modernist Skamander poets. He has also penned a wide range of scholarly articles and several volumes of poetry.

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