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Energetic, formally audacious poems by a recently rediscovered Polish writer, shining examples of art as resistance.

Zuzanna Ginczanka?s last poem, ?Non omnis moriar..." (?Not all of me shall die?), written shortly before her execution by the Nazis in the last months of World War II, is one of the most famous and unsettling texts in modern East European literature: a fiercely ironic last will and testament that names the person who betrayed her to the occupying authorities as a Jew, it exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of Polish nationalist myths.

Ginczanka?s linguistic exuberance and invention?reminiscent now of Marina Tsvetaeva, now of Marianne Moore or Mina Loy?are as exhilarating as the passionate fusion of the physical world and the world of ideas she advocated in her work. Firebird brings together many of Ginczanka?s uncollected poems and presents On Centaurs, her sole published book, in its entirety.

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.

Firebird

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    A Paperback / softback by Zuzanna Ginczanka, Alissa Valles

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      Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
      Published 22 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9781681377308
      978-1681377308
      ISBN-10 1681377306
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Energetic, formally audacious poems by a recently rediscovered Polish writer, shining examples of art as resistance.

      Zuzanna Ginczanka?s last poem, ?Non omnis moriar..." (?Not all of me shall die?), written shortly before her execution by the Nazis in the last months of World War II, is one of the most famous and unsettling texts in modern East European literature: a fiercely ironic last will and testament that names the person who betrayed her to the occupying authorities as a Jew, it exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of Polish nationalist myths.

      Ginczanka?s linguistic exuberance and invention?reminiscent now of Marina Tsvetaeva, now of Marianne Moore or Mina Loy?are as exhilarating as the passionate fusion of the physical world and the world of ideas she advocated in her work. Firebird brings together many of Ginczanka?s uncollected poems and presents On Centaurs, her sole published book, in its entirety.

      This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.

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