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Our Life Grows

Our Life Grows

Krynicki, Ryszard
Valles, Alissa
Michnik, Adam

Paperback

Series: Nyrb Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 168137160X
ISBN13: 9781681371603
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 14 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.50 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
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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