Book record
The Sonnets
Adam Mickiewicz
Translated from Polish by Charles Kraszewski
The Sonnets, by Adam Mickiewicz, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Charles Kraszewski, published by Glagoslav Publications in 2018. It is a Polish classical volume by Adam Mickiewicz that brings one of the central figures of Polish literature into English sonnet form. Its pleasure lies in seeing inherited form become travel, longing, discipline, and national imagination. 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
- 2018
- Publisher
- Glagoslav Publications
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781911414902