Our Life Grows
Our Life Grows by Ryszard Krynicki is the first uncensored, English-language translation of the work of a notable Polish dissident poet. Published by New York Review of Books on November 14, 2017, this edition spans 176 pages and presents Krynicki’s poetry, which reflects his experiences and observations in post-World War II Europe. The collection, originally published in Paris in 1978, marks a significant moment in Krynicki’s career, showcasing his ability to convey the complexities of life under Communist censorship.
Readers will find a blend of biting wit and a rigorously questioning mind in these poems, which also incorporate elements of surreal imagination. Krynicki’s work is characterized by a deep sense of solitude and solidarity with a community that has faced hardship and manipulation. This edition offers insight into the themes of European identity and the struggles of the postwar era, making it a vital contribution to the understanding of contemporary poetry and its historical context.
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The first uncensored, English-language translation of a Polish dissident poet’s brave act of witness in post-World-War-II Europe.
The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry offering what Adam Michnik has called “a strange and beautiful marriage of Joseph Conrad’s heroic ethics with a great metaphysical perspective.” Krynicki is the author of a body of work marked at once by the solitude of a poète maudit and solidarity with a hurt and manipulated community. Our Life Grows, published in Paris in 1978, was the first poetry collection to appear as Krynicki intended, beyond the reach of the Communist censorship that had crippled his earlier books. These poems, combining a biting wit and rigorously questioning mind with a surreal imagination, are a vital part of the story of postwar Europe.
This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
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