Book record
Content Chapped Lips
Jaroslaw Pijarowski, Mark Polyakov
Translated from Polish by Tim Brombley
Content Chapped Lips is a Polish multi-author or collaborative poetry volume from Poland, associated with Jaroslaw Pijarowski, Mark Polyakov, translated by Tim Brombley, and published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2019. It is a Polish collaborative volume with a title that makes speech feel damaged, dry, and insistently bodily. The poems seem to begin from the mouth itself, where language has to pass through abrasion before becoming utterance. 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
- 2019
- Publisher
- Cross-Cultural Communications
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780893047931