Book record
Zero Visibility
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Translated from Polish by Piotr Gwiazda
Zero Visibility, by Grzegorz Wróblewski, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Piotr Gwiazda, published by HewesHeiser in 2017. It is a Polish collection where perception fails, weather thickens, and the self moves without clear sightlines. Wróblewski's title turns disorientation into a method, letting the poem proceed when the road has disappeared. 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
- 2017
- Publisher
- HewesHeiser
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- ISBN
- 9781944700126