Twelve Stations by Tomasz Rózycki and translated by Bill Johnston

This is poetry from Poland.

Twelve Stations by Tomasz Rózycki translated by Bill Johnston is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Polish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983297048E12.

Twelve Stations, by Tomasz Rózycki and translated by Bill Johnston from Polish, brings Polish-language poetry from Poland into English through Polish station-sequence, travel, and a poem built around stops, returns, and civic-spiritual geography. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for stations, journey, city, and the theatrical movement of a self crossing history by increments, not as a fixed lesson about Poland. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Twelve Stations belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings contemporary Polish poetry into English through narrative momentum, pilgrimage, and formal architecture.

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