Been and gone by Julian Kornhauser and translated by Piotr Florczyk

This is poetry from Poland.

Been and gone by Julian Kornhauser translated by Piotr Florczyk is published by Marick Press. This is a Book originally written in Polish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193485105E12.

Been and gone, by Julian Kornhauser, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Piotr Florczyk, published by Marick Press in 2009. It is a Polish collection where disappearance and afterimage become the ordinary weather of the page. Kornhauser’s title already sounds like a report from a world that keeps withdrawing as soon as it is named. I would read it first for the pressure of the translated line rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The best version of a description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: a little context, then permission to meet the poem through image, cadence, and affect. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Poland. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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