Book record
Black Square
Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Black Square, by Tadeusz Dąbrowski, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, published by Zephyr Press in 2010. It is a Polish collection whose title evokes modernist severity, abstraction, and a dark field of perception. The poems invite attention to what a square can hold: art history, emptiness, pressure, and the stubborn fact of form. 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.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Zephyr Press
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780981552163