acknowledge
These lines understand their power to manipulate: 'this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth'
the poems reveal more and more to the active reader prepared to work hard to mine the gold
The post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture
people and animals and tender elegies - all written with a generosity and confidence that ensure these poems sing in your mind long after you finish reading them'
Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance by Wioletta Greg, trans. by Marek Kazmierski Helen Vendler acknowledgeOne hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, the Polish poet Wioletta Greg undertakes a literary journey through her own family history, exploring in both poetry and prose a century of life, death, love and tragedy. With passion, tenderness and humour, she traces a path from the lives of her grandparents in early twentieth century Poland, through two world wars, life under Communism and the subsequent liberation, to her own experiences