Dear Ms. Schubert: Poems by Ewa Lipska
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Dear Ms. Schubert: Poems by Ewa Lipska
By (Author) Ewa Lipska
Translated by Robin Davidson
Translated by Ewa Elbieta Nowakowska
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
16th March 2021
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Poetry by individual poets
Literary studies: poetry and poets
891.8518
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Hardback
168
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Description
The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska's exciting "Dear Ms. Schubert" poems Ewa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first complete collection of her remarkable poetic pos
Reviews
"Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism." * New York Times *
"Dear Ms. Schubert is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world."---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books
"Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in Dear Ms. Schubert] will discover a lovely garden of delightsThe poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to readclever and startling. Kyle Torke, Colorado Review"
"The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of Dear Ms. Schubert are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm."---Alice-Catherine Carls, World Literature Today
Author Bio
Ewa Lipska was born in Krakw, Poland, in 1945. She is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and has won many awards, including the Polish PEN Clubs Robert Graves Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Her poems have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Robin Davidson is a poet, translator, and professor emeritus of literature and creative writing at the University of HoustonDowntown. Twitter @RobinDavidsonr Ewa Elbieta Nowakowska is a poet, short-story writer, and translator who lives and teaches in Krakw. Davidson and Nowakowska are also the translators of a previous collection of Lipskas poetry, The New Century.
