Poezje zebrane
Collected Poems

Summary/Abstract: Poezje zebrane is a comprehensive collection of Fr. Ihnatowicz’s poems culled from different volumes and organized chronologically, from the earliest 1972 book Pejzaż z postaciami through Wiersze wybrane (1973), Niewidomy z Betsaidy (1991), Czas, co pochłania (2002), Epigram o nadziei i inne wiersze (1992–2003), to Od czasu kto nas wyzwoli? (2007) The poems in the 1975 volume Displeasure have been written in English. The book also contains poems that had been dispersed in various journals, as well as previously unpublished texts. The volume closes with translations into Polish from Hebrew (“Song of Songs”), Latin (two poems of Venatius Fortunatus), and from such English poets as Gerald Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Dame E. Sitwell, John Crowe Ransom, W. Owen, E. E. Cummings, H. Crane, R. Eberhart, L. MacNeice, W. H. Auden, Steven Spender, and Dylan Thomas. The chronological organization of the book allows the reader to witness the poetic development of the author, as well as foregrounding of the recurrent motifs in his work.

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