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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “piotr florczyk”
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  • Dialogue and Influence

    Essays on Polish and American Poets

    by Piotr Florczyk ...
    Series series Polish Studies
    Dialogue and Influence weds a commitment to translation studies to historical and conceptual questions about translation, literary influence, and global literary networks by highlighting the fantastically generative dialogue that Polish and American poets have engaged in since the 1960s. They have translated each other’s work and learned how to write new kinds of poems in the process. In some ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swimming Pool

    by Dr. Piotr Florczyk ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while taking a closer look at artists, architects, writers, and others who have helped to cement the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Polish Literature as World Literature

    Edited by Dr. Piotr Florczyk, Dr. K. A. Wisniewski ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    This carefully curated collection consists of 16 chapters by leading Polish and world literature scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, and, of course, Poland. An historical approach gives readers a panoramic view of Polish authors and their explicit or implicit contributions to world literature. Indeed, the volume shows how Polish authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th century to the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Calligraphy of Days

    Selected Poems

    by Krzysztof Siwczyk ...
    Translated by Piotr Florczyk, Alice-Catherine Carls ...
    Verses that oscillate between the turmoil of post-communist Eastern Europe to understated reflections on grief and mortality.The sixty-four poems in A Calligraphy of Days reflect Krzysztof Siwczyk’s wide-ranging and variegated style. Born in 1977, Siwczyk has lived most of his life in the Silesian city of Gliwice. In 1995, he became a wunderkind of the Polish poetry scene with his debut volume ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The World Shared

    by Dariusz Sosnicki ...
    Translated by Piotr Florczyk, Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series series
    Dariusz Sosnicki's poems open our eyes to the sublime just beneath the surface of the mundane: a train carrying children away from their parents for summer vacation turns into a ravenous monster; a meal at a Chinese restaurant inspires a surreal journey through the zodiac; a malfunctioning printer is a reminder of the ghosts that haunt us no matter where we find ourselves.Among the perpetrators ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Folding Star

    and Other Poems

    by Jacek Gutorow ...
    Translated by Piotr Florczyk ...
    Series series
    "We are fortunate to now have them in English so that we who don't read Polish can now read these, and enjoy their insight and wry wit."Mary Jo BangIn his triumphant collection The Folding Star and Other Poems, poet of the imagination Jacek Gutorow offers thirty-one gems that that will help change our understanding of Polish poetry.Jacek Gutorow has been nominated for the Nike Award, the Cogito ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Pynchon and Philosophy

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