Sobbing Superpower
Selected Poems of Tadeusz Róźewicz
3 May 2013
Description
"An anti-poet relentlessly, even ruthlessly determined to tell the truth, however painful it may be."—Edward Hirsch
From "regression into the primordial soup"
finally I too came into the world
in the year 1921 and suddenly . . .
atchoo! time passes I am old and forgot where I put my glasses
I forgot there was
history Caesar Hitler Mata Hari
Stalin capitalism communism
Einstein Picasso Al Capone
Alka Seltzer Al Qaeda
Reviews
"Striking . . . chilling. . . . [Rozewicz’s work] embodies that particular anxiety and familiar sense of diminishment we still associate with being ‘modern.’" — The Nation
"Rozewicz is that rare character—a skeptic as full of passion as of intelligence, of warmth as wariness." — judges’ citation, Griffin Poetry Prize
"Instead of answers, the poet offers only an examination. Like it or not, he says, this is all we have: a fragment, a glimpse, a rustle." — New Republic
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