Book record
Everything I Don’t Know
Jerzy Ficowski, Piotr Sommer
Translated from Polish by Jennifer Grotz
Everything I Don't Know is a Polish multi-author or collaborative poetry volume from Poland, associated with Jerzy Ficowski, Piotr Sommer, translated by Jennifer Grotz, and published by World Poetry Books in 2021. It is a Polish poetry volume associated with Ficowski and Sommer, built around uncertainty, witness, and the humility of attention. The title is wonderfully readerly because it does not pretend knowledge is the poem's prize; it lets not-knowing become an ethical posture. 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
- 2021
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781954218994