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"Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism." * New York Times *
"Dear Ms. Schubert is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world."---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books
"Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in Dear Ms. Schubert] will discover a lovely garden of delights…The poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to read…clever and startling. —Kyle Torke, Colorado Review"
"The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of Dear Ms. Schubert are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm."---Alice-Catherine Carls, World Literature Today

Dear Ms. Schubert

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    A Hardback by Ewa Lipska, Robin Davidson, Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 5 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9780691207490
      978-0691207490
      ISBN-10 0691207496

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism." * New York Times *
      "Dear Ms. Schubert is an admirable addition to international literature, a gift to the English-speaking world."---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books
      "Readers lucky enough to find themselves immersed in the poems [in Dear Ms. Schubert] will discover a lovely garden of delights…The poems, in a confident translation by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, are pleasant to read…clever and startling. —Kyle Torke, Colorado Review"
      "The fascinating puzzle Lipska has put in front of us continues with the blurring of the boundary between prose and poetry. According to Lipska herself, the poems were written as prose postcards, and indeed only the poems of Dear Ms. Schubert are set as free verse poems. This is a revolutionary act, a democratization that anchors poetry in spoken and written nonliterary texts and gives it the rhythm of breathing; its speaker/writer perceives the world in a particular, poetic rhythm."---Alice-Catherine Carls, World Literature Today

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