Book record
Sobbing Superpower
Tadeusz Różewicz
Translated from Polish by Joanna Trzeciak
Sobbing Superpower, by Tadeusz Różewicz, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Joanna Trzeciak, published by Norton in 2010. It is a Polish selected volume by Tadeusz Różewicz, a major postwar voice of fracture and witness. The title is almost brutally accurate to the modern world: power crying, language damaged, history refusing to become noble. 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
- 2010
- Publisher
- Norton
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780393067798