Mer de Glace by Malgorzata Lebda and translated by Mira Rosenthal

This is poetry from Poland.

Mer de Glace by Malgorzata Lebda translated by Mira Rosenthal is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. This is a Book originally written in Polish. This was published in 2026.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781804272138E12.

Mer de Glace, by Malgorzata Lebda, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Mira Rosenthal, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2026. It is a Polish collection moving through glacier, climate, body, and the cold intelligence of landscape. Lebda’s title turns the natural world into something both beautiful and endangered, immense and already speaking. 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.

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