Such Times
Selected Poems
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1981
- Category
- General, Women Authors, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888820549
- Publish Date
- Mar 1981
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
Such Times is the first collection in English of the poems of the talented young Polish Poet, Ewa Lipska. The fifty-six poems in this volume have been selected from the 139 that appear in Dom Spokojnej Mlodosci: Wierze Wybrane (The Home for Peaceful Youth: Selected Poems) published in Cracow, in 1979. Even in English translation the poems convey the vivid impression of an alert mind, torn emotions, quirky temperament, highly individual talent. As well, they dramatize much of the poet’s time and place.
About the authors
Born in 1945 in Kraków, Ewa Lipska was for many years the poetry editor of the literary magazine Pismo, which she co-founded, and was active in Poland’s Nowa Fala, or New Wave. Her many prizes include the Ko?cielski Fund Award, the Robert Graves Pen Club Award, and Pen Club Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement. Her poetry has been widely translated, into Hebrew as well as into European languages.
John Robert Colombo, who edited and annotated Worlds in Small, is known as the Master Gatherer for his many compilations of the lore and literature of Canada. Colombo has complied, translated, and written over eighty books. He co-translated into English five books of Bulgarian literature, not to mention books of verse originally written in Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, etc. In the field of native studies he has compiled Windigo, Poems of the Inuit, Songs of the Indians, and Songs of the Great Land. Among his large-scale literary anthologies are The Poets of Canada and Colombo’s Book of Canada. He edited Other Canada, the country’s first anthology of science fiction and fantasy, and beginning with Mysterious Canada, he has written or complied six books of Paranormal Canadiana. These books, plus media appearances, have earned him the title "Canada’s Mr. Mystery."
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Wacław Iwaniuk was born in Chełm Lubelski, Poland, and has lived in Toronto, Canada, since 1948. Among his ten books are Nemezis idzie pustymi drogami (Nemesis Travels Along Empty Roads) published in London in 1978 and Dark Times: Selected Poems, translated by Jagna Boraks, published in Toronto in 1979.
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