Magnetic Point: Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811225007)

One of Poland's greatest living poets--now in English at last--Ryszard Krynicki was born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp, the son of Polish slave laborers. His 1969 volume, Act of Birth, marked the emergence of a major voice in the "New Wave" of Polish poetry. In Krynicki's work, political and poetic rebellion converged during the 1970s and '80s, he was arrested on trumped-up charges and forbidden from publishing. But his poetry is hardly just political. From the early dissident poems to his recent haiku, Krynicki's lyrical work taps deep wells of linguistic acuity, mysticism, compression, and wit.

Author: Ryszard Krynicki
ISBN-10: 0811225003
ISBN-13: 9780811225007
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2017
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2017
Library Journal 11/15/2017