This World Is a Fairy Tale: Conversation with Jerzy Jarniewicz
THIS EVENT TAKES PLACES IN POLISH SLAVIC CENTER LOCATED ON 176 JAVA STREET, GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, 11222.
Please, join Polish Slavic Center and Brooklyn Public Library for a conversation with Jerzy Jarniewicz, author of a freshly published poetry collection "Landless Boys", translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk, and available from MadHat Press.
In these poems sacrilege and the sacred repeatedly weave through each other. Sex and eros are neither romanticized nor profaned, but simply — and inexorably — present. Grand-scale human thinking becomes diminished by its proximity to daily activity, and private lives exist quietly inside the machinery of history and civilization. By the end, this ambitious, brilliant, understated book has offered an astonishingly broad depiction of human experience — inside of which the individual mind is forever navigating the inescapability of both the body and the present moment.
—Wayne Miller
Jerzy Jarniewicz is a Polish poet, translator and literary critic, who lectures in English at the University of Łódz. He has published twelve volumes of poetry, thirteen critical books on contemporary Irish, British and American literature, and has written extensively for various journals, including Poetry Review, Irish Review, Cambridge Review. He is editor of the literary monthly Literatura na Świecie (Warsaw) and has translated the work of many novelists and poets,
including James Joyce, John Banville, Seamus Heaney, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth, Edmund White, Ursula Le Guin, and Derek Walcott. In 2022 he won the Nike Literary Award, one of Poland’s highest honors, when his poetry volume, Mondo Cane, was named book of the year.
This event is made possible thanks to support from the Polish Cultural Institute.
176 Java St.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
THIS EVENT TAKES PLACES IN POLISH SLAVIC CENTER LOCATED ON 176 JAVA STREET, GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, 11222.
Please, join Polish Slavic Center and Brooklyn Public Library for a conversation with Jerzy Jarniewicz, author of a freshly published poetry collection "Landless Boys", translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk, and available from MadHat Press.
In these poems sacrilege and the sacred repeatedly weave through each other. Sex and eros are neither romanticized nor profaned, but simply — and inexorably — present. Grand-scale human thinking becomes diminished by its proximity to daily activity, and private lives exist quietly inside the machinery of history and civilization. By the end, this ambitious, brilliant, understated book has offered an astonishingly broad depiction of human experience — inside of which the individual mind is forever navigating the inescapability of both the body and the present moment.
—Wayne Miller