Book record
69
Miłosz Biedrzycki
Translated from Polish by Frank L. Vigoda
69, by Miłosz Biedrzycki and translated by Frank L. Vigoda from Polish, brings Polish-language poetry from Poland into English through Polish irreverence, numerical title, and a contemporary lyric quickness that resists solemn packaging. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for number, joke, speed, and the comic edge where form starts misbehaving, not as a fixed lesson about Poland. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. 69 belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a Polish voice of wit, oddity, and anti-monumental energy.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Zephyr Press
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780939010998