Book record
Froth poems
Jarosław Mikołajewski
Translated from Polish by Piotr Florczyk
Froth poems, by Jarosław Mikołajewski, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Piotr Florczyk, published by Calypso Editions in 2013. It is a Polish collection that treats lightness, surface, and foam as serious lyric matter. Mikołajewski's poems invite the reader to consider how much a fragile surface can reveal before it dissolves. 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
- 2013
- Publisher
- Calypso Editions
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780983099994