Description
| Product ID: | 9781953861726 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | To The Letter |
| Subtitle: | Poems |
| Authors: | Author: Mira Rosenthal, Tomasz Rozycki |
| Page Count: | 100 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Rozycki 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 Rozycki''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 colour, 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Archipelago Books |
| Publisher Name: | Archipelago Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-01-09 |
