Book record
The new century
Ewa Lipska
Translated from Polish by Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska, Robin Davidson
The new century, by Ewa Lipska, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska, Robin Davidson, published by Northwestern University Press in 2009. It is a Polish collection by Ewa Lipska attentive to modernity, irony, and the strange social weather of a changing age. The century here feels less like a calendar than a machine everyone has to learn to survive. 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
- 2009
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9780810126336