Book record
Our Life Grows
Ryszard Krynicki
Translated from Polish by Alissa Valles
Our Life Grows, by Ryszard Krynicki, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Alissa Valles, published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The in 2017. It is a Polish collection by Ryszard Krynicki where life appears through compression, moral attention, and small increments of seeing. The poems feel patient with growth, not sentimental about it, as if every increase carries responsibility. 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
- 2017
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781681371603