Description
These 33 selected love poems (plus three self-contained poems)?translated by Marian Polak-Chlabicz, in original-language versions and translations set side by side, with eight very impressive drawings by Janusz Skowron, renowned artist from New York?constitute a unique book whose author Boleslaw Lesmian is regarded as the greatest Polish poet by many literary scholars?as the one who reached the highest verbal artistry in his mother-tongue verse. His masterpieces are virtually unknown outside Poland because of the lack of translations (especially into non-Slavic languages). His extremely idiosyncratic poetic diction full of neologisms, and strict metrical versification have made his poetry ?untranslatable? until now. Marian Polak-Chlabicz, a literary translator and poet himself, dared to do that which had been considered undoable. Not only has he conveyed the Lesmianian-ness of the original; he has created beautiful poems in English.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.