They Came to See a Poet : Selected Poems

by Rozewicz, Tadeusz

• ISBN13: 9780856463617
• ISBN10: 0856463612
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Poland's most popular and influential poet in Adam Czerniawski's masterly English translation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(20)
Cage 1974	31	(229)
from Anxiety (Niepokoj, 1947)
Mask	33	(1)
Mother of the hanged	34	(1)
Two verdicts	35	(1)
The survivor	36	(1)
Purification	37	(1)
Living star	38	(1)
from The Red Glove (Czerwona rekawiczka, 1948)
I see madmen	39	(1)
A visit	40	(1)
Chestnut	41	(1)
The return	42	(1)
Mound	43	(1)
A shell	44	(1)
Abattoirs	45	(1)
But whoever sees . . .	46	(1)
What luck	47	(1)
from Five Longer Poems (Piec poematow, 1950)
Pigtail	48	(1)
Massacre of the boys	49	(1)
New sun	50	(1)
Head in a void	51	(1)
from Poems and Images (Wiersze i obrazy, 1952)
Evocation of childhood	52	(1)
Witness	53	(1)
An old peasant woman walks along the beach	54	(4)
from Smiles (Usmiechy, 1955)
The colour of her eyes and questions	58	(1)
Warmth	59	(1)
from Silver Ear of Corn (Srebrny klos, 1955)
A tree	60	(1)
My lips	61	(2)
Love 1944	63	(1)
Who's absent	64	(1)
Beyond words	65	(1)
from An Open Poem (Poemat otwarty, 1956)
Wood	66	(1)
Golden mountains	67	(1)
Leave us	68	(1)
In the midst of life	69	(3)
Posthumous rehabilitation	72	(2)
from Forms (Formy, 1958)
Forms	74	(1)
The king	75	(1)
Job 1957	76	(1)
The door	77	(1)
A meeting	78	(1)
from Conversation with the Prince (Rozmowa z ksieciem, 1960)
Conversation with the prince	79	(4)
The return	83	(1)
One can	84	(1)
Solution	84	(1)
The new man	85	(1)
White spots	85	(1)
Fear	86	(1)
Monuments	87	(1)
Completion	88	(1)
Shallowly quicker	89	(1)
Death	90	(1)
It's so hidden	91	(3)
Unrecorded epistle	94	(1)
New comparisons	95	(1)
from The Green Rose (Zielona roza, 1961)
A fight with an angel	96	(1)
Green rose	97	(2)
In the light of day	99	(2)
To the heart	101	(1)
Proposition the second	102	(1)
Mars	103	(1)
They shed the load	104	(1)
A late 19th-century love-poem	105	(2)
I was writing	107	(1)
from An Anonymous Voice (Glos anonima, 1961)
Et in Arcadia ego	108	(23)
from Nothing in Prospero's Cloak (Nic w plaszczu Prospera, 1963)
`In a cathedral . . .'	131	(1)
Nothing in Prospero's cloak	132	(1)
At the same time	133	(1)
The smile of Leonardo da Vinci	134	(1)
A lesson in patience	135	(2)
from The Third Face (Twarz trzecia, 1968)
From a biography	137	(1)
Laughter	138	(1)
The first is hidden	139	(1)
Doors	140	(1)
I build	141	(1)
`The sea at night . . .'	142	(1)
Leda	143	(1)
In a strange tongue	144	(1)
Penetration	145	(1)
Draft for a contemporary love-poem	146	(2)
Butterflies	148	(4)
Busy with many jobs	152	(1)
Capitulation	153	(1)
Poem of pathos	154	(1)
Proofs	155	(1)
In the theatre of shades	156	(1)
`he tears easily . . .'	157	(1)
A tale of old women	158	(3)
Precis	161	(2)
Curtains in my plays	163	(1)
Solution	164	(2)
I closed my hand	166	(2)
Knowledge	168	(1)
Upon the departure of a poet and a passenger train	169	(1)
Birth of a new poem	170	(2)
My poetry	172	(1)
from Regio (Regio, 1969)
On the surface and inside a poem	173	(4)
Autumnal	177	(1)
Thorn	178	(2)
The end	180	(1)
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer	181	(2)
Grass	183	(1)
Re-education	184	(1)
Feeding time	185	(1)
`a white night . . .'	186	(1)
`the reality . . .'	187	(1)
Regio	188	(10)
I did espy a marvellous monster	198	(3)
The rose	201	(2)
`I yelled at Her . . .'	203	(2)
from A Traumatic Tale (Opowiadanie traumatyczne, 1979)
Descending	205	(1)
`That rustle . . .'	206	(1)
`I was sitting in an easy-chair . . .'	207	(1)
Picture	208	(1)
`Doors in walls of houses . . .'	209	(1)
`my body . . .'	210	(2)
However, what endures is decreed by poets	212	(2)
Photograph	214	(1)
from On the Surface and Inside a Poem (Na powierzchni poematu i w srodku, 1983)
`I tried to remember . . .'	215	(1)
Tate Gallery Shop	216	(3)
When writing	219	(1)
They came to see a poet	220	(2)
Tree-felling	222	(3)
from Various Poems (Wiersze rozne, 1980--1983)
Comma	225	(2)
Poem	227	(2)
Suddenly	229	(1)
from Bas-Relief (Plaskorzezba, 1991)
Without	230	(2)
`my time is up . . .'	232	(1)
Just imagine such a thing!	233	(1)
Autistic poem	234	(6)
Now	240	(1)
from fragment always * recycling (zawsze fragment * recycling, 1998)
Francis Bacon or Diego Velazquez in a dentist's chair	241	(10)
I have seen him	251	(2)
Uncollected poems
Light, shadow	253	(1)
Fleeing from Weimar	254	(2)
Things fell into place	256	(2)
`when the poem ends . . .'	258	(1)
Homework	259	(1)
`At times. . .'	260	(3)
Works by Tadeusz Rozewicz in English Translation	263	(1)
Commentaries in English	264	(1)
Index of Titles	265