A01=Piotr Sommer
Author_Piotr Sommer
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Product details
- ISBN 9781852247027
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Piotr Sommer is one of Poland’s leading poets. Continued extends and enlarges the achievement of his earlier Bloodaxe selection, Things to Translate, and spans his whole career to date. The translations were made with the help of leading British and American poets, including John Ashbery, Douglas Dunn and D.J. Enright.
Piotr Sommer is a Polish poet and translator of contemporary Anglo-American poetry. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including one earlier selection in English, Things to Translate (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), and two books of essays. He lives outside Warsaw and works for Literatura na Swiecie, a magazine of international writing. He has translated many British and American poets into English, including Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara and Charles Reznikoff, and has edited an anthology of modern British and Irish poets translated into Polish as well as a collection of interviews with leading British and Irish poets. He is a frequent visitor to Britain and Ireland, where he has given many readings as well as holding residencies.
