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Everything I don't know, selected poems of Jerzy Ficowski ; translated from the Polish by Jennifer Gortz and Piott Sommer ; Afterword by Piotr Sommer

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Everything I don't know

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selected poems of Jerzy Ficowski ; translated from the Polish by Jennifer Gortz and Piott Sommer ; Afterword by Piotr Sommer

"What good luck to finally have in English the writings of the brilliant Jerzy Ficowski, the poet who lived at least seventeen lives, fighting in the Warsaw Uprising, and later traveling for years with the Roma people through the roads of Poland, opposing his government, and watching the authorities ban his poems, a poet who translated from Spanish and Romanian and Yiddish and Roma, but most of all from the tongue of silence...Beautifully translated by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, these poems also document the tragedy of the Holocaust, with the direct and uncompromising voice with which he reminds us of the great poets such as Różewicz and Świrszczyńska, while remaining, all the while, himself. Read a piece such as 'I was unable to save / a single life' in a bookstore, and I guarantee you will want to take this book with you, to keep it for the rest of your life."--Ilya Kaminsky -- "Thanks to these brilliant, careful, inspired translations, we can now read Jerzy Ficowski, one of Poland's best kept secrets. This book is a marvel in its weird clarity and extraordinary range of styles and subjects, from the perfectly unassuming paradox of the title, all the way through to its final poems about bumblebees and Satie and mother nature, who scratches herself and 'shudders / with a tsunami.' How fortunate we are to have the unassailable evidence that all along, there was yet another genius of 20th century Polish poetry."--Matthew Zapruder -- Poetry. Jewish Studies

My Sides of the World (1957) -- Amulets and Definitions (1960) -- Picture Alphabet (1962) -- The Bird Beyond the Bird (1968) -- A Reading of Ashes (1979) -- Illicit (1979) -- Errata (1981) -- Death of a Unicorn (1981) -- The Initial (1994) -- Beforetime and Aftertime (2004) -- Pantarheia (2006) -- Afterword by Piotr SommerApricot Time -- Behind the Door the World -- O Drawer! -- All Around London -- Ante-Bird: Scarecrow -- The Empty Places After -- My Attempted Travels -- The Migration of the Hangers -- From the Mythological Encyclopedia (Burners ; Facet ; Ashtray ; Table ; Cone ; Candle) -- Thursday -- Inside-Out Views -- Paris! Paris! -- Entomology -- Picture Alphabet -- Revolt -- I Dreamt Myself -- Fish on the Sand -- Six Etudes (Old Beggar at the Church ; Cemetery Squirrels ; Gordian Bow ; Since Carp ; Erotic ; All the Same) -- Today a Long Time Ago -- Life -- Penetration -- From Fingerprints -- My Unsurvivor -- Apocrypha of the Original Apple -- Papusza -- Creator -- Traduction -- Tell How It Was -- The Bird Beyond the Bird -- ***(I was unable to save) -- The Assumption of Miriam from a Street in Winter, 1942 -- 5 VIII 1942 (The Six-Year Old from the Ghetto Begging on Smolna Street in the Year 1942 ; The Jews Left -- The Execution of Memory ; A Gathering of Stones ; The End of the Rite) -- I'll Tell You a Story -- Illicit -- ***(With a temperature of 101.3) -- Gdansk Train Station, Warsaw 1968 -- The Hour Is Ripe -- Recipe -- The Rite -- How to Spoil the Cannibals Fun -- Childhood, 1940 -- A Certain Dickens -- Ringelblum Archive -- Incantation -- Getting Out of the Mirror -- ***(in the steep eveings of falling asleep) -- Don't Be Surprised -- Tangalia, 1936 -- List of Telephone Subscribers for the Capital City of Warsaw for the Year 1938-39 -- There I'll Get Lost -- Refuge -- Slowness -- ***(Honey lives only) -- Prayer to the Holy Louse -- The Gypsy Road -- Village Landscape -- The Initial -- Everything I Don't Know -- The Road to Zuzela -- From the Nature Notebook -- My Belated Guests -- Memorial -- The Dot over the I -- Freedom -- Paired Inscription -- Dear Zbigniew -- Absent -- I'm Heading Out -- ***(rivers suspend their current) -- Kazakhstan, USSR -- from "Side Notes" -- By Itself -- Aequinoctium -- Wormwood Night -- Pantarheia -- Screening Cancelled -- We

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