Tideline - (New Polish Writing) by Krystyna Dą & browska (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Exquisitely-crafted poems from Poland that explore how stories, and history, lie beneath the surface: of a neighbor's face, city streets, ancient ruins, even language.

Krystyna Dąbrowska is an award-winning younger Polish poet whose poems convey a profound curiosity about the world, not only expressed by the lyric speaker but by those inside the poems -- two owls guarding their nest, or a dog at the beach, or blind visitors in a museum. Her work and use of language so captivated the three translators that they decided to collaborate on this collection together. Many poems address daily life; others delve into the Holocaust, family relationships, and travels -- to Cairo, Georgia, Jerusalem. Tideline is her first book in English, presented bilingually with the original Polish.

Review Quotes

"In her impeccable work as a translator, Antonia Lloyd-Jones has captured [the poet's] voice, showing us how fantastic and joyful his poems are." -- Jim Zukowski, The Rumpus

"Karen Kovacik has entered so successfully into the world of the poet that much of this work honestly seems poetry of a very high order in English." -- Sasha Dugdale, Eurolitnetwork

About the Author

Co-translator Mira Rosenthal is poet, translator, and past fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship. Her translation of Polish poet Tomasz Różycki's collection, Colonies (Zephyr Press, 2013), was shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin International Poetry Prize and won the 2015 Northern California Book Award. Her work appears regularly in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. Her first book of poems, The Local World, received the Wick Poetry Prize. She lives in Los Osos, California.