Book record
The world shared
Dariusz Sośnicki
Translated from Polish by Boris Dralyuk
The world shared, by Dariusz Sośnicki, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Piotr Florczyk, published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2014. It is a Polish collection where common life, civic space, and private perception meet. Sośnicki's title is generous but not simple, asking what it means to inhabit a world no one owns alone. 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
- 2014
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Ltd.
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781938160349