Poems saturated with love, a mature and wise love capable of seeing the world as a harmonious entity. In this book Janko is a fortifier and a healer. (Karol Maliszewski)
'A female Rimbaud', is how the critic Artur Sandauer described Anna Janko after her famous debut in 1977. Her work is marked by distinctiveness and a courageous imagination. It is a woman's poetry, but certainly not women's poetry. It has suspense, the kind which exists between man and the world, nature, the Absolute, and between two human beings. In this poetry every word has its worth, every sentence has its rhythm, its music. The poetry of Anna Janko captivates the reader with a hidden mystery, a charm of its own, forcing him to return to it again and again.
Finalist of the NIKE '2001, Poland's biggest literary award.
Anna Janko (b. 1957), poet, literary critic, editor of publishers' series.
- Anna Janko
The Luminous Foreigner / Świetlisty cudzoziemiec
Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2000
translation rights: Anna Janko, rights available
110 x 177, 40 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-7255-462-5