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To the Letter: Poems

To the Letter: Poems

Rosenthal, Mira
Rozycki, Tomasz

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1953861725
ISBN13: 9781953861726
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: Jan 9 2024
Pages: 145
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.51 Depth: 7.25
Language: English
Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love - detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story

A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.--Polish Book Institute

Różycki 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

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