Book record
Oho: Selected Poetry and Prose
Miron Bialoszewski
Translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh
Oho: Selected Poetry and Prose, by Miron Bialoszewski, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Clare Cavanagh, published by New York Review of Books in 2024. It is a Polish selected volume that makes everyday speech feel off-kilter, intimate, and wonderfully strange. Bialoszewski's work feels like language caught mid-gesture, before it has decided whether it is joking, praying, or falling apart. 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
- 2024
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781681370392