| Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska Contributor(s): Kamienska, Anna (Author), Curzon, David (Translator), Drabik, Grazyna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1557255997 ISBN-13: 9781557255990 Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA) OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: The first U.S. publication of a Polish poet whose struggles with spiritual issues spark comparisons to Czeslaw Milosz |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Poetry | European - General - Religion | Spirituality |
| Dewey: 891.851 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.40 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Mainline |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the 20th century. Her poems record the struggles of a rational mind with religious faith, addressing loneliness and uncertainty in a remarkably direct, unsentimental manner. Her spiritual quest has resulted in extraordinary poems on Job, other biblical personalities, and victims of the Holocaust. Other poems explore the meaning of loss, grief, and human life. Still, her poetry expresses a fundamentally religious sense of gratitude for her own existence and that of other human beings, as well as for myriad creatures, such as hedgehogs, birds and "young leaves willing to open up to the sun." |
Contributor Bio(s): Kamienska, Anna: - Anna Kamienska (1920-1986) was a major Polish writer and a recognized peer of the Nobel Prize winners Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaz Milosz. She left a rich legacy of twenty books of poetry, two volumes of Notebooks (a short-hand record of her readings and self-questioning), two volumes of commentaries on the Bible, and other writings and translations. |
