A beautiful volume of the poems of Father Jan Twardowski, a priest, poet, and preacher. His work speaks of goodness, love, faith, and hope, and it is valued by readers of all generations for its deep metaphysical and humanistic subtexts. For many Poles, his maxim "Let us hurry to love people; they depart so quickly" became a synonym for living life in a humanitarian way. "The poems collected here were written with a Polish heart," write Fr. Twardowski and Aleksandra Iwanowska (responsible for selection of the works) in the preface to the volume. "They speak about the author's family home, mother, his recollections, memory, and the national literature. They speak about the Church in Poland, our faith and lack thereof, our piousness and traditions, the family landscape, and our feelings. They were written in Poland and in Polish – not in Paris, Tokyo, or Stockholm, but in Lipkowo, Swinotop, Kamienczyk, Zabia Wolka, between July and August, when the evening primrose is canary yellow."
- Jan Twardowski
Mała ojczyzna / Small Homeland
Poems selected by Aleksandra Iwanowska
photographs by Tadeusz Bach, Aleksandra Iwanowska
Wydawnictwo BOSZ, Olszanica 2002
80 pages
ISBN 83-87730-39-4
www.bosz.com.pl
