Book record
Colonies
Tomasz Rozycki
Translated from Polish by Mira Rosenthal
Colonies, by Tomasz Rozycki, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Mira Rosenthal, published by Zephyr Press (AZ) in 2012. It is a Polish collection where private memory and imperial metaphor uneasily share the same ground. Różycki's title lets the poems think about belonging as something mapped, inherited, occupied, and resisted. 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
- 2012
- Publisher
- Zephyr Press (AZ)
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780983297031