Description: Dear Beloved Humans: Selected Poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski (translation). Diálogos Books (2023). “In this book we find short brilliant grim verse tales ... Grzegorz Wróblewski is the great sweetly sardonic poet of [our] humane belatedness” (Al Filreis). “The amazingly compressed poems in Dear Beloved Humans are constantly banging themselves against this world that makes no…
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Dear Beloved Humans: Selected Poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski (translation). Diálogos Books (2023). “In this book we find short brilliant grim verse tales — such as the tale of Anne who lives inside her white dress, or that of the poet who is the only one (including former cosmonauts!) remaining unconverted. Poem by poem we move through an inexorably dark circle of life, where poems’ speakers are in the process of disappearing faster and faster; where it feels like rain especially when it’s not raining and the
Zero Visibility by Grzegorz Wróblewski (translation). Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum (2017). “This brilliant collection offers an elegantly translated Vergil for the conditions of zero visibility that seem inevitable as we try to make sense of the diverse threads constituting our lives” ( Charles Altieri ). “Prolonged nudity as an enhanced interrogation technique. The Juice Probe that looks for life on one of Jupiter’s moons. A wish to be reincarnated as a crab. The memory of something velvety. This is the realm