Scattering the Dark: An Anthology of Polish Women Poets

Book Overview

"Wow What a book The tradition of women's writing that flows out of the work of Symborska and Anna Swir--the way this mighty tradition turns in the hands of a younger generation from the traumatic history of their country to a poetics of everyday life, of play, and experiment. An absolutely rich and appealing book."--Robert Hass

"These cosmopolitan, multilingual poets speak to us across the decades, overcoming a great silence, redirecting the myths, reimagining the role of the poet, and the nature of poetry itself. Scattering the Dark is a useful, subversive, even necessary anthology."--Edward Hirsch

Scattering the Dark offers a lively selection of over thirty of Poland's women poets writing before and after the fall of communism.

Karen Kovacik is a translator and poet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935210823
• ISBN13: 9781935210825
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"