{"product_id":"zero-visibility-paperback","title":"Zero Visibility - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrzegorz Wróblewski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePiotr Gwiazda\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of poems from one of Poland's major contemporary writers, Grzegorz Wr blewski, demonstrates his characteristic virtues: anthropological focus, objectivist detachment (though not without hallucinatory interference), minimalistic precision. But it also signals the presence of new elements. One of them is an extensive reliance on found language, the preferred mode of Anglophone conceptual writers, here acquiring a distinctly Eastern European flavor. Another is his candor, which teases readers with glimpses of his most private feelings. Bleak and terse, Wr blewski subjects his material to almost clinical treatment in order to better dissect and so understand the series of events that we call reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrzegorz Wróblewski\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1962 in Gdansk and grew up in Warsaw. Since 1985 he has been living in Copenhagen. He is the author of many books of poetry, drama, and other writings. As a visual artist, he has exhibited his paintings in various galleries in Denmark, Germany, England, and Poland. English translations of his work are available in \u003ci\u003eOur Flying Objects\u003c\/i\u003e (trans. Joel Leonard Katz, Rod Mengham, Malcolm Sinclair, Adam Zdrodowski, Equipage, 2007), \u003ci\u003eA Marzipan Factory\u003c\/i\u003e (trans. Adam Zdrodowski, Otoliths, 2010), \u003ci\u003eKopenhaga\u003c\/i\u003e (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Zephyr Press, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eLet's Go Back to the Mainland\u003c\/i\u003e (trans. Agnieszka Pokojska, Cervená Barva Press, 2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePiotr Gwiazda's\u003c\/b\u003e translation of Grzegorz Wróblewski's \u003ci\u003eKopenhaga\u003c\/i\u003e appeared from Zephyr Press in 2013. He has also published three books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eGagarin Street\u003c\/i\u003e (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2005), \u003ci\u003eMessages\u003c\/i\u003e (Pond Road Press, 2012), and \u003ci\u003eAspects of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e (Moria Books, 2015), as well as two critical studies, \u003ci\u003eJames Merrill and W.H. Auden\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eUS Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42106926596231,"sku":"9781944700126","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/25236740de4cd1844272693ae4f64332.webp?v=1732450022","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/zero-visibility-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}