Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393345551)

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

Author: Tadeusz Rózewicz
ISBN-10: 0393345556
ISBN-13: 9780393345551
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2013
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.00d