Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz

By Tadeusz Różewicz

Book Overview

Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz R zewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays R zewicz'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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393067793
• ISBN13: 9780393067798
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"