Dear Ms. Schubert /
poems by Ewa Lipska ; translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska.
- Bilingual edition.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2021
- xiv, 144 p.
- The Lockert Library of poetry in translation .
- Lockert library of poetry in translation. .
Translation of: Droga pani Schubert. Facing page translation with Polish on the versos and English on the rectos.
"The book is composed of 62 poems selected from several of Ewa Lipska's books in which the figure Ms. Schubert appears. Ms. Schubert, a modern European everywoman, is the addressee in poems that read like brief, intimate communiqués between a man and a woman whose relationship over time interweaves a shared secret life with the historical domain of wars, extremist governments, shifting economies, languages (Polish, German, English), and technologies. Ms. Schubert, as recipient of these cryptic postcards, represents the poet's subtle call to her readers as we navigate our own historical moment-balancing sociopolitical action with the authentic love that can endure only between and among individuals"