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Wroclaw 2001
145 x 206
hardcover
67 pages
ISBN 83-7023-840-8
translation rights: Tadeusz Różewicz
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Tadeusz RóżewiczProfessor's Knife
The jacket of Tadeusz Rozewicz's latest book has a picture of the knife his friend, the well-known art historian Professor Mieczyslaw Porebski had while in the concentration camp. ("It used to be carried in the seam/ of your camp overall, / as they confiscated knives,/ and that could cost you dear.") This instrument, made from the hoop of a barrel, serves as the theme for the poem entitled The Professor's Knife, one of the six poems in this new volume.
The poet, who celebrated his eightieth birthday this year, makes it clear in his new poems that he has less ahead of him than what he has already been through. The point is that what he has gone through, what he's seen, witnessed, and participated in gives him no peace. It wakes him up in the middle of the night and keeps on forcing him to think about it. The poet's memory is like an open wound. (Janusz Drzewucki)
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