The first uncensored, English-language translation of a Polish dissident poet's brave act of witness in post-World-War-II Europe.
The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry offering what Adam Michnik has called "a strange and beautiful marriage of Joseph Conrad's heroic ethics with a great metaphysical perspective." Krynicki is the author of a body of work marked at once by the solitude of a poète maudit and solidarity with a hurt and manipulated community. Our Life Grows, published in Paris in 1978, was the first poetry collection to appear as Krynicki intended, beyond the reach of the Communist censorship that had crippled his earlier books. These poems, combining a biting wit and rigorously questioning mind with a surreal imagination, are a vital part of the story of postwar Europe.
This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
| ISBN: | 9781681371603 |
| Publication date: | 18th January 2018 |
| Author: | Ryszard Krynicki |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Our Life Grows, published in Paris in 1978, was the first poetry collection to appear as Krynicki intended, beyond the reach of the Communist censorship that had crippled his earlier books. These poems, combining a biting wit and rigorously questioning mind with a surreal imagination, are a vital part of the story of postwar Europe.
Our Life Grows (Uncensored) features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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Our Life Grows (Uncensored) was written by Ryszard Krynicki and published by New York Review Books
Our Life Grows (Uncensored) has 176 pages
Yes it is part of New York Review Books Poets series