Nothing More

Krystyna Miłobędzka, one of Poland's leading and most innovative poets, was first published in 1960; her early volumes were singled out by Stanisław Barańczak for their "dramatic ungrammaticalness", as they speak about elementary human relationships - between woman and man, mother and child - "in a language that is 'being thought'." Her prose poems, rooted in the body and earth, reveal an immediacy of expression, "seemingly uncontrolled, reporting the birth of the yet unspecified thought: a...