"On the surface she seems to be close to Postmodernist poetry, which plays with language and juggles about with literary cliché, (...) but in fact there is not that much playfulness in her books, and her language games tend to have a lining of bitterness..."
"On the surface of it, Cyranowicz is engaged in the translation of her own experiences into the language of poetry, and stays close to the autobiographically concrete, but has nothing to do with memoir poetry. On the surface she seems to be close to Postmodernist poetry, which plays with language and juggles about with literary cliché, opening up to the library and to the space of the imagination, but in fact there is not that much playfulness in her books, and her language games tend to have a lining of bitterness." (Robert Ostaszewski)
Maria Cyranowicz (b. 1974) poet, literary critic, doctoral student at the Institute of Polish Studies, Warsaw University. Holder of the renowned Ludwik Fryde Young Critics' Prize. This is her second book.
- Maria Cyranowicz
And Magick's Nation / I magii nacja
Wydawnictwo Zielona Sowa, Krakow 2001
translation rights: Maria Cyranowicz, rights available
146 x 204, 30 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-7220-207-9