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This collection of poems from one of Poland’s major contemporary writers, Grzegorz Wróblewski, demonstrates his characteristic virtues: anthropological focus, objectivist detachment (though not without hallucinatory interference), minimalistic precision. But it also signals the presence of new elements. One of them is an extensive reliance on found language, the preferred mode of Anglophone conceptual writers, here acquiring a distinctly Eastern European flavor. Another is his candor, which teases readers with glimpses of his most private feelings. Bleak and terse, Wróblewski subjects his material to almost clinical treatment in order to better dissect and so understand the series of events that we call reality.
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Zero Visibility
This collection of poems from one of Poland’s major contemporary writers, Grzegorz Wróblewski, demonstrates his characteristic virtues: anthropological focus, objectivist detachment (though not without hallucinatory interference), minimalistic precision. But it also signals the presence of new elements. One of them is an extensive reliance on found language, the preferred mode of Anglophone conceptual writers, here acquiring a distinctly Eastern European flavor. Another is his candor, which teases readers with glimpses of his most private feelings. Bleak and terse, Wróblewski subjects his material to almost clinical treatment in order to better dissect and so understand the series of events that we call reality.
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Overview

This collection of poems from one of Poland’s major contemporary writers, Grzegorz Wróblewski, demonstrates his characteristic virtues: anthropological focus, objectivist detachment (though not without hallucinatory interference), minimalistic precision. But it also signals the presence of new elements. One of them is an extensive reliance on found language, the preferred mode of Anglophone conceptual writers, here acquiring a distinctly Eastern European flavor. Another is his candor, which teases readers with glimpses of his most private feelings. Bleak and terse, Wróblewski subjects his material to almost clinical treatment in order to better dissect and so understand the series of events that we call reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781944700126
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 05/09/2017
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Grzegorz Wróblewski was born in 1962 in Gdansk and grew up in Warsaw. Since 1985 he has been living in Copenhagen. He is the author of many books of poetry, drama, and other writings. As a visual artist, he has exhibited his paintings in various galleries in Denmark, Germany, England, and Poland. English translations of his work are available in Our Flying Objects (trans. Joel Leonard Katz, Rod Mengham, Malcolm Sinclair, Adam Zdrodowski, Equipage, 2007), A Marzipan Factory (trans. Adam Zdrodowski, Otoliths, 2010), Kopenhaga (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Zephyr Press, 2013), and Let’s Go Back to the Mainland (trans. Agnieszka Pokojska, Cervená Barva Press, 2014).

Piotr Gwiazda’s translation of Grzegorz Wróblewski’s Kopenhaga appeared from Zephyr Press in 2013. He has also published three books of poetry, Gagarin Street (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2005), Messages (Pond Road Press, 2012), and Aspects of Strangers (Moria Books, 2015), as well as two critical studies, James Merrill and W.H. Auden (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note 1

Tests on Monkeys 5

Makamba 9

Sally 13

(A Disappointment) 15

The Great Fly Plague 17

Two Women by the Atlantic 19

Club Melon 21

The Bathrobe 23

Shotokan 25

Bronislaw Malinowski's Moments of Weakness 27

I Take Great Pleasure in Yellow Flowers 29

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques 31

Chickens and the Moon 33

Chemical Reactions 35

Minimalism 37

Campers 39

Blue Monday 41

Ducks in Ho Chi Minh City 43

$ 45

Osaka 47

Bees Fell Asleep 49

A Long Snowless Winter 51

Someone Cared 53

The Great Creature of the Sun… 55

Travels with a First Aid Kit 57

Boeing 737 59

Silkworms 61

Porpoises 63

Summer 65

Cosmonauts 67

Sunset 69

Birds and Dolphins 71

Iconic Figure 73

Stones 75

You and Me 77

Crab 79

The Juice Probe 81

Poem 83

I Think About You Constantly 85

Anaerobes 87

Flies 89

When I Meditate about Cortez… 91

Hair 93

Velvet 95

The Queen of Cats 97

Twin 99

Zero Visibility 101

I'm Indestructible 103

A Memory of Barcelona 105

Isn't It Strange 107

Penguin 109

Signs 111

September Sky 113

Nature Explorers 115

The Wave 117

Translator's Acknowledgments 119

About the Author 121

About the Translator 123

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