Scattering the Dark by Anthology and translated by Karen Kovacik

This is poetry from Poland.

Scattering the Dark by Anthology translated by Karen Kovacik is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Polish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210825E12.

Scattering the Dark is an anthology translated by Karen Kovacik from Polish, gathering Polish-language poetry from Poland through an anthology of Polish women poets, darkness, and the scattered force of voices too often grouped at the margins. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through darkness, women, anthology, and the bright fragments made when a tradition is heard differently. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Scattering the Dark belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the Polish shelf a necessary chorus of women writers across style, generation, and pressure. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.