Book record
I Wrote Stone
Ryszard Kapuściński
Translated from Polish by Diana Kuprel
I Wrote Stone, by Ryszard Kapuściński, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Diana Kuprel, published by Biblioasis in 2008. It is a Polish collection by Ryszard Kapuściński where travel, witness, and compression meet in lyric form. The title gives language a hard surface, as though the poem were trying to leave marks durable enough for history. 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
- 2008
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781897231371