To the Letter : Poems

✍ Scribed by Tomasz Rozycki; Mira Rosenthal

• Book ID: 115248453
• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 405 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781953861733

✦ Synopsis

Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love - detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story
"A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed."--Polish Book Institute
Rożycki collects moments of illumination - a cat dashing out of a window and "feral sun" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany.
Tomasz Rożycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot: fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he...