Dear Ms. Schubert
Poems by Ewa Lipska
1st Edition
Published on 25. February 2021
168 pages
978-0-691-20847-3 (ISBN)
Description
The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska's exciting "Dear Ms. Schubert" poems
Ewa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first complete collection of her remarkable poetic postcards addressed to "Ms. Schubert," a mysterious contemporary European everywoman.
Written by a certain Mr. Schmetterling ("Mr. Butterfly"), these brief, intimate poems are by turns philosophical, political, and playfully erotic. Combining subversive wit and surrealist imagery, they slowly reveal the contours of a shared secret life played out against a turbulent historical backdrop-a relationship that strikes a precarious balance between deep cultural skepticism and authentic love.
Featuring the original Polish text and the English translation on facing pages, Dear Ms. Schubert is a highly original and appealing book from a poet who richly deserves a wide English-language readership.
Ewa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first complete collection of her remarkable poetic postcards addressed to "Ms. Schubert," a mysterious contemporary European everywoman.
Written by a certain Mr. Schmetterling ("Mr. Butterfly"), these brief, intimate poems are by turns philosophical, political, and playfully erotic. Combining subversive wit and surrealist imagery, they slowly reveal the contours of a shared secret life played out against a turbulent historical backdrop-a relationship that strikes a precarious balance between deep cultural skepticism and authentic love.
Featuring the original Polish text and the English translation on facing pages, Dear Ms. Schubert is a highly original and appealing book from a poet who richly deserves a wide English-language readership.
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Persons
Ewa Lipska was born in Kraków, Poland, in 1945. She is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and has won many awards, including the Polish PEN Club's Robert Graves Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Her poems have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Robin Davidson is a poet, translator, and professor emeritus of literature and creative writing at the University of Houston-Downtown. Twitter @RobinDavidsonr Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska is a poet, short-story writer, and translator who lives and teaches in Kraków. Davidson and Nowakowska are also the translators of a previous collection of Lipska's poetry, The New Century.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- from PEOPLE FOR BEGINNERS (1997)
- Ancestry, Dear Ms. Schubert . . .
- The Abyss That Brings Us Together . . .
- The Novel I Could Write for You . . .
- from 1999 (1999)
- 2001
- from ECHO (2010)
- Opera
- The Soloist
- Echo
- DEAR MS. SCHUBERT . . . (2012)
- Cities
- Labyrinth
- Ferris Wheel
- The Hero of the Novel
- Lightning
- Absentmindedness
- Confession
- Language
- History
- The Brothers Grimm
- Casino
- Stupidity
- Last Will and Testament
- Nero
- Home
- Dream
- Film
- Mirror
- A Typo
- Wagner
- Now
- Dietary Supplement
- The EU
- Question
- Memory
- Poetry
- LOVE, DEAR MS. SCHUBERT . . . (2013)
- The Large Hadron Collider
- Piano
- Excess Memory
- The Dark Matter of Tulips
- Playing The World
- Love
- Silence
- A New Planet
- Virus
- King Oedipus
- The Dead
- Longing
- Illusion
- Darkness
- The Volcano Vendor
- Safe Mode
- Explosion
- Memory
- Black Pianos
- Conspiracy Theories
- Sudden Brightness
- Special Services
- Fate
- What's Up
- Photographs
- Loneliness
- Our World
- Between
- Translators' Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- About the Author and Translators
