Book cover for Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz by Tadeusz Rózewicz

Sobbing Superpower

Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz

Tadeusz Rózewicz
2013 Released
368 Pages
6-9 Hours
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W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN 9780393345551
Translated by Joanna Trzeciak
Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz Rózewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Rózewicz'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

Tadeusz Rózewicz

Tadeusz Rózewicz was born in Poland in 1921. He is a major poet and playwright.

Joanna Trzeciak

Translated by

Joanna Trzeciak's translations include Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Heldt Translation Prize. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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