Book record
Native foreigners
Aniela Gregorek
Translated from Polish by Aniela Gregorek
Native foreigners, by Aniela Gregorek, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Aniela, Jerzy Gregorek, published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2015. It is a Polish collection whose title names the paradox of belonging and estrangement in the same breath. The poems invite a reader to think about identity as a border one can be born inside and still never fully cross. 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
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cross-Cultural Communications
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780893049249