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Building the Barricade and Other Poems of Anna Swir
Anna Swir
Translated from Polish by Piotr Florczyk
Building the Barricade and Other Poems of Anna Swir, by Anna Swir, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Piotr Florczyk, published by Calypso Editions in 2011. It is a Polish collection by Anna Swir shaped by war, body, gender, and moral extremity. The poems refuse to make suffering decorative; they keep the body close enough that history cannot become abstract. 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
- 2011
- Publisher
- Calypso Editions
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780983099918