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On centaurs & other poems / Zuzanna Ginczanka ; translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky ; with a preface by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Van Pelt Library PG7158.G52 A2 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginczanka, Zuzanna, 1917-1944, author.
- Series:
- Eastern European poets series ; number 48.
- Eastern European poets series ; no. 48
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Ginczanka, Zuzanna, 1917-1944--Translation into English.
- Ginczanka, Zuzanna.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 249 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- On centaurs and other poems
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : World Poetry Books, 2023.
- Language Note:
- Text is in Polish and English.
- Summary:
- "The first selected volume in English of Zuzanna Ginczanka, a visionary Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish poet of the inter-war years whose life was cut short by the Holocaust. Ginczanka's surreal and mythologically-informed poetry appeared at a time in Poland when Jewish poets like Julian Tuwim were at the helm of the avant-garde in the Skamander poetic movement. Her 1936 collection On Centaurs was released to great acclaim when she was barely 20 years old. Dubbed 'Tuwim in a skirt' by her contemporaries, Ginczanka's youth, gender, and Jewish background posed challenges to her career in the Polish literary world of her time. She disguised herself as Catholic, but ultimately fell victim to the Holocaust in 1945. The hybrid identities she was forced to embody seeped into her poetry, which conjoins biblical imagery to idiosyncratic geological, cosmological and botanical obsessions. Published in a bilingual edition, with a preface by Yusef Komunyakaa and an introduction by translator Alex Braslavsky, On Centaurs and Other Poems introduces the full scope of Ginzcanka's poetic vision and prophetic voice to English-language readers for the first time."--Amazon website.
- Contents:
- Early poems
- On centaurs [1936]
- Later poems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xxi).
- ISBN:
- 9781954218109
- 1954218109
- OCLC:
- 1372277513
- Publisher Number:
- 99993574447
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