To Feed the Stone by Bronka Nowicka and translated by Katarzyna Szuster

This is poetry from Poland.

To Feed the Stone by Bronka Nowicka translated by Katarzyna Szuster is published by Dalkey Archive Press. This is a Book originally written in Polish. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781628973723E12.

To Feed the Stone, by Bronka Nowicka, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Katarzyna Szuster, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2021. It is a Polish collection by Bronka Nowicka where object, hunger, and fairy-tale strangeness gather into prose-poetic pressure. The title is impossible in the best way, treating stone as creature, companion, and appetite. 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.

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