Book record
Squatters’ Gift
Robert Rybicki
Translated from Polish by Mark Tardi
Squatters' Gift, by Robert Rybicki, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Mark Tardi, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2021. It is a Polish collection that sounds urban, unruly, and resistant to polite ownership. Rybicki's title suggests a poetics of occupation and offering, where what is marginal may also be what keeps the language alive. 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
- 2021
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781628973730