Pisanki
eBook - The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
This altogether remarkable and accomplished book is indeed a text for the times, in this terrible epoch of failed refugees. But what it leaves us with is a sense of the triumph of the human spirit in the most adverse conditions. It does this without ever preaching, but by finding what Yeats called `befitting emblems of adversity¿ in order to overcome it. It is a major and important achievement.
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Zusatztext
In 1940, a young girl is taken from her home in Eastern Poland to Arkhangelsk, Siberia; in 1942, she boards a train. Seventy years later, that journey is reimagined by her granddaughter, Zosia Kuczy¿ska. As Kuczy¿ska's poems tell the story of her babcia, her maternal grandmother, coming to England, she confronts some of the big questions of art and history: how do you tell another person's story without exploiting it? What's at stake when we try make patterns out of the past, and can we ever leave those patterns behind? Kuczy¿ska's poems are both richly narrative and sharply attentive to the complexities of home and culture. They capture human endurance through the redrawing of political maps, from 'the heat of Easter in Tehran' to the powdered eggs and stocking shortages of the London Blitz.
Autorenportrait
Zosia Kuczy¿ska is the author of two pamphlets with The Emma Press: Pisanki (2017) and With others in your absence (2021). Her work is featured in Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat, 2021) and has appeared in The White Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Tangerine.
Weitere Details
Erschienen: 12.10.2018
Umfang: 36 S., 13.13 MB
Sprache: ENG
ISBN/EAN: 9781910139714
Umbreit-Nr.: 2461883
