Research Catalog

Title

The new century : poems / Ewa Lipska ; translated from the Polish by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska.

Author

Lipska, Ewa

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davidson, Robin, 1953-
• Nowakowska, Ewa Elżbieta, 1972-

Description

xxxiii, 85 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Although Lipska's poems reveal an acute awareness of history and politics, she's primarily concerned with individual experience and the most difficult philosophical questions of evil. Lipska is awed by beauty despite the deep skepticism that permeates her poems, countering corruption with an unflinching commitment to conveying truth without sentimentality."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Translations
• Lipska, Ewa > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: The Absurdity of Beauty / Ewa Lipska -- Introduction / Robin Davidson -- Four Notes on Ewa Lipska's Poems / Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska -- from 1999 (1999) -- December 31, 1999 (starting p. 5) -- The Albatross and the Engraver (starting p. 6) -- Hannah Arendt (starting p. 7) -- We 1998 (starting p. 8) -- When a Great Poet Dies in My Country (starting p. 9) -- The Honor of Tragedy (starting p. 10) -- God Asks (starting p. 11) -- The Smells of Evil (starting p. 12) -- Watch Your Step (starting p. 13) -- Note (starting p. 14) -- Love (starting p. 15) -- Ericsson, Child (starting p. 16) -- The Holy Order of Tourists (starting p. 17) -- John Keats (starting p. 18) -- 2001 (starting p. 19) -- from Pet Shops (2001) -- Fashion Craze (starting p. 23) -- The New Century (starting p. 24) -- Calvin (starting p. 25) -- Pet Shops (starting p. 27) -- Fog (starting p. 28) -- Press Enter (starting p. 29) -- The Accident (starting p. 31) -- from I (2003) -- Number One (starting p. 35) -- A Juicer (starting p. 36) -- I (starting p. 37) -- No One (starting p. 38) -- Home (starting p. 39) -- That (starting p. 40) -- September 11, 2001 (starting p. 41) -- from Elsewhere (2005) -- Elsewhere (starting p. 45) -- From a Distance (starting p. 46) -- Plum Cake (starting p. 47) -- Helplessness (starting p. 48) -- The Abyss (starting p. 49) -- Monument (starting p. 50) -- Memory (starting p. 51) -- Inattentive Moment (starting p. 52) -- from Splinter (2006) -- Anthem of Fog (starting p. 55) -- Splinter (starting p. 56) -- Live Update (starting p. 57) -- Noah (starting p. 58) -- That's Why (starting p. 59) -- Spinoza (starting p. 60) -- Absence (starting p. 61) -- Dead Stop (starting p. 62) -- from Newton's Orange (2007) -- Newton's Orange (starting p. 65) -- Further and Further (starting p. 69) -- Stain (starting p. 70) -- Newton's Orange: The Origin (starting p. 71) -- Freedom (starting p. 73) -- Newton's Orange: Fate (starting p. 74) -- Newton's Orange: Era (starting p. 76) -- In the Poorhouse of Europe (starting p. 78) -- In's Hertogenbosch (starting p. 79) -- At the Poetry Reading (starting p. 80) -- Newton's Orange: Infinity (starting p. 81) -- God May Prefer Doughnuts (starting p. 83) -- A Door Handle (starting p. 84) -- Newton's Orange: Gravity (starting p. 85)

ISBN

• 9780810126336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810126338 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009024601

OCLC

318428716

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library