Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird (Polish Edition)

Baran, Marcin [Editor]; Skuciska, Anna [Editor]; Wojcik-Leese, Elzbieta [Editor]; Martin, William [Translator];

ISBN 10: 0939010720 / ISBN 13: 9780939010721

Published by Zephyr Press, 2002

About this Item

Bilingual edition, Polish and English, 2004; 335 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; binding tight; unfaded orange and gray wrapper without discernible wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird (Polish Edition)
• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: Polish
• ISBN 10: 0939010720
• ISBN 13: 9780939010721
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY::POLISH

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Synopsis

Since the lyric beginnings of Polish poetry, writers have been burdened with duties typically delegated to politicians, soldiers, priests, or journalists. The political, social, and cultural changes of the last decade have allowed Polish poets to cast off these burdens, and focus instead on individual expression and varied aesthetic movements. Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird focuses on the core group of this movement—poets born between 1958 and 1969.

". . . in a constant confusion of mystification and authenticity, distance and directness, representational skepticism and mimetic euphoria, game-playing and honesty, the poets presented here perform their informal, singular duties towards language and the human condition."—from the introduction by Marcin Baran

About the Author

Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese teaches translation and contemporary literature in English at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She co-edits Przekladaniec, a journal of literary translation; her translations of contemporary Polish poets, among them Marcin Swietlicki and Marzanna Bogumila Kielar, have appeared in Acumen, Chicago Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and the Zephyr anthology Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird.