Book record
Mother departs
Tadeusz Różewicz
Translated from Polish by Barbara Bogoczek
Mother departs, by Tadeusz Różewicz and translated by Barbara Bogoczek from Polish, brings Polish-language poetry from Poland into English through Różewicz's Polish mourning, family archive, and the mother as a figure for loss that cannot be made literary enough. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for mother, departure, archive, and the stripped speech grief leaves behind, not as a fixed lesson about Poland. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Mother departs belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a Polish work of elegy, documentary intimacy, and unsentimental tenderness.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stork Press
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780957391215