I’m Half of Your Heart by Julian Kornhauser and translated by Piotr Florczyk

This is poetry from Poland.

I’m Half of Your Heart by Julian Kornhauser translated by Piotr Florczyk is published by Lost Horse Press. This is a Book originally written in Polish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999199428E12.

I’m Half of Your Heart, by Julian Kornhauser, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Piotr Florczyk, published by Lost Horse Press in 2018. It is a Polish collection in which intimacy is divided, shared, and made formally uneasy. Kornhauser’s title understands love as both closeness and incompletion, a heart split into address. 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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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