Dariusz Sosnicki The World Shared

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Dariusz Sosnicki’s poems open our eyes to the sublime just beneath the surface of the mundane: a train carrying children away from their parents for summer vacation turns into a ravenous monster; a meal at a Chinese restaurant inspires a surreal journey through the zodiac; a malfunctioning printer is a reminder of the ghosts that haunt us no matter where we find ourselves.

Among the perpetrators and victims,
buzzed or wasted to the bone,
gliding without their blinkers on
in the ruts of the national fate—they’re not at home.

Dariusz Sosnicki is an award-winning poet, essayist, and editor in Poland.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ONE 4

LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER 5

FROM THE GROUND FLOOR 6

GOING DOWN 7

VISIONS OF THE MIDWEST PRAIRIE 8

WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE BOSTON SYPHONY ORCHESTRA

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SEIJI OZAWA ON THE FRENCH

MUSIC STATION “MEZZO” 10

MONSTER 12

CHINESE ZODIAK 13

A WORKER ON A SCAFFOLD, A MINOR RASTER OF THE DEBRIS

NETTING 14

THREE ROOKS 15

POEM AGAINST MONEY 16

A MOUSE IN A BUCKET 17

MARLEWO 18

RAIN. A RHETORICAL QUESTION 19

IN WINTER, THREE HOURS BEFORE DAWN 20

TWO 21

MR. P. CONFESSES: I’M NOT AN URBAN GUERILLA 22

MR. AND MRS. P. AND MOTOR VEHICLES 23

MR. AND MRS. P. AND THE SADNESS OF ANIMALS 24

ALPHABET OF MR. P.: THE ETHOS OF READING 25

ALPHABET OF MRS. P.: TABLE 26

ALPHABET OF MR. P.: SHOPPING BAG 27

ALPHABET OF MR. P.: SHOES or the Opinion of Mr. P. on the 2008 Olympics 28

ALPHABET OF MR. P.: AUTUMN COAT 29

MR. AND MRS. P. AND ANTI-WANDA 30

ALPHABET OF MRS. P.: POTTED PLANTS (in December) 31

MR. AND MRS. P. AND THE PRICE OF SUGAR 32

MR. AND MRS. P. FANTASIZE ABOUT MOVING or On the Advantage

and Disadvantage of History for Life 33

SUMMER OF MR. AND MRS. P. 34

THREE 35

THAW 36

THE HYDRANT ON LACHOWICKA STREET 37

BIRD SONG 38

WASPS 39

HOW DOES ONE GO DOWN THE STAIRS 40

MAUNDY THURSDAY 41

THE IKARUS 42

TONERSTAINS 43

OF THINGS AND PEOPLE 44

HOLY CROSS LAMENT 45

EARTHLY DELIGHTS 46

NOTES 48

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 49

[Polish poems not yet included]

Om författaren

Dariusz Sosnicki (born in 1969 in Kalisz) is a poet, essayist and editor. He graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with a degree in Philosophy. He was co-editor of the art-zine Juz Jest Jutro (1991–1994) and co-founder and co-editor of the influential Polish literary biweekly Nowy Nurt (1994–1996). In 1994 he published the collection of poems Marlewo, which received the best first book award from the magazine Czas Kultury. In 2001, he participated in International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Next year, his fourth collection of poems Symmetry was shortlisted for “Polityka” Passport and received the New Books Review Prize. Sosnicki’s poems and literary essays have been published in many magazines and anthologies, in both Polish and in translation. Since 2005 he has been working at W.A.B. Publishing House as an editor of Polish contemporary fiction. He lives in Poznan.

Piotr Florczyk is a poet, essayist, and translator from his native Polish. He is editor and translator of Froth: Poems by Jaroslaw Mikolajewski (Calypso Editions, 2013), The Folding Star and Other Poems by Jacek Gutorow (BOA Editions, 2012), Building the Barricade and Other Poems of Anna Swir (Calypso Editions, 2011), and Been and Gone: Poems of Julian Kornhauser (Marick Press, 2009). He teaches at University of San Diego and at San Diego State University.

Boris Dralyuk holds a Ph D in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. He is the translator of Leo Tolstoy’s How Much Land Does a Man Need (Calypso Editions, 2010), A Slap in the Face: Four Russian Futurist Manifestos (Insert Blanc Press, 2013), and Anton Chekhov’s Little Trilogy (forthcoming from Calypso Editions, 2014), and co-translator of Polina Barskova’s The Zoo in Winter: Selected Poems (Melville House, 2011). He is also the co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of the forthcoming Anthology of Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (Penguin Classics, 2015). He received First Prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition, and, with Irina Mashinski, First Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 112 ● ISBN 9781938160356 ● Filstorlek 0.3 MB ● Översättare Piotr Florczyk & Boris Dralyuk ● Utgivare BOA Editions Ltd. ● Publicerad 2014 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6538582 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM

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