{"product_id":"to-the-letter-tomasz-rozycki-9781953861726","title":"To the Letter: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love - detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.\"--Polish Book Institute \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRóżycki collects moments of illumination - a cat dashing out of a window and \"feral sun\" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTomasz Różycki's \u003ci\u003eTo the Letter \u003c\/i\u003efollows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot: fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits \"this is the story of my confusion,\" and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail. \"This lunacy needs a full investigation,\" he jibes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe wants to get to the bottom of it all, but he's often bewitched by letters and the trickery of language. Diacritics on Polish words form a \"flock of sooty flecks, clinging to letters\" and Lieutenant Anielewicz studies the tails, accents, and strokes that twist this script. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the Lieutenant can't write a coherent code to solve life's mysteries or to fill the absence of a country rent by war, his search for patterns throughout art, philosophy, and literature lead not to despair but to an affirmation of the importance of human love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomasz Rozycki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953861725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953861726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.25h x 5.51w x 0.23d","brand":"Tomasz Rozycki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245191688447,"sku":"9781953861726","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f0e0d31-5d0a-40b3-9d8b-cd370ec07ea2.jpg?v=1693926656","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-the-letter-tomasz-rozycki-9781953861726","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}