Pisanki by Zosia Kuczynska

Pisanki by Zosia Kuczynska

A collection of poems.

'Kuczynska narrates a bond between generations, one that has led her to depict the pear trees and “metal-sown” fields of her grandmother’s memoriesPisanki is a spellbinding tapestry of images and emotions, of displacement, loss and hope.'

- PBS Bulletin

"Like “Sarah Jane’s Geranium”, almost all the poems in this selection ironize the conventions of such sentiments in order to better perceive the real political effects of displacement. Kuczyńska seeks to recognize and refigure this ‘longing’ for home in the pamphlet as a whole, but this impulse is most obviously present as she writes the history of her grandmother’s deportation to Maharashtra in India, and eventual emigration to England. These poems – “Brother Staś”, “The train from Arkhangelsk to Bukhara” and “Dresses”, among others – are the pamphlet’s most obvious strength, and will be the reason many readers pick up Pisanki in the first place." -Edward Ferrari, Sabotage Reviews

-- Edward Ferrari

Zosia Kuczyńska is the author of two pamphlets with The Emma Press: Pisanki (2017) and With others in your absence (2021). Her work is featured in Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat, 2021) and has appeared in The White Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Tangerine. Rachel Piercey is a poet and editor who also writes for children. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Magma, The Rialto, Poems In Which, Butcher’s Dog and The Poetry Review and she has two pamphlets with the Emma Press, The Flower and the Plough and Rivers Wanted. https://www.rachelpierceypoet.com/

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ISBN 13	9781910139721
ISBN 10	1910139726
Title	Pisanki
Author	Zosia Kuczynska
Series	The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Emma Press
Year published	2017-06-08
Number of pages	36
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.