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| 020 | _a9781953861726 | ||
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_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra |
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| 041 | _aEnglish | ||
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_a891.85173 _bROZ/TO |
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| 100 | _aRozycki, Tomasz | ||
| 245 | _aTO LETTER | ||
| 250 | _a1 | ||
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_aNew York _bArchipelago Books _c2023 |
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| 300 | _g127 | ||
| 500 | _aRóżycki collects moments of illumination – a cat dashing out of a window and "feral sun" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany. Tomasz Różycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot: fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits "this is the story of my confusion," and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail. "This lunacy needs a full investigation," he jibes. He wants to get to the bottom of it all, but he's often bewitched by letters and the trickery of language. Diacritics on Polish words form a "flock of sooty flecks, clinging to letters" and Lieutenant Anielewicz studies the tails, accents, and strokes that twist this script. While the Lieutenant can't write a coherent code to solve life's mysteries or to fill the absence of a country rent by war, his search for patterns throughout art, philosophy, and literature lead not to despair but to an affirmation of the importance of human love | ||
| 650 | _aLiterature | ||
| 650 | _aLiterature of other languages | ||
| 650 | _aLiterature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages | ||
| 650 | _aWest and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) | ||
| 650 | _aPolish | ||
| 650 | _aPolish poetry | ||
| 650 | _a1919–1989 | ||
| 700 | _aMira Rosenthal (tr.) | ||
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