"This reticent poetry is surprisingly able to meet the challenge of the deepest despair without for a moment abandoning the most ordinary gestures and the everyday things. These poems are about despair and about the beauty of life..."
"There are certain emotional truths which don't come across easily either in interviews or in novels, and only sometimes, rarely does someone manage to express them in poetry. This book by Ludmiła Marjańska is just such a beautiful volume of poetry of this type. What an extraordinary kind of love-poetry! And it is also a record of pain, suffering, devotion, affection, patience, despair, dying and longing. Others may perhaps also experience this kind of love, but do not have the gift to express it."
"This reticent poetry is surprisingly able to meet the challenge of the deepest despair without for a moment abandoning the most ordinary gestures and the everyday things. These poems are about despair and about the beauty of life. Can it be? I don't know. But that's just what it is." (Małgorzata Baranowska)
Ludmiła Marjańska (b. 1923), author of numerous volumes of poetry and several novels, translator of British and American poetry, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.
- Ludmiła Marjańska
Resin / Żywica
Czytelnik, Warszawa 2001
translation rights: Ludmiła Marjańska, rights available
123 x 196, 72 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-07-02822-1