Krzysztof Siwczyk is an award-winning poet, critic, and essayist from Poland. He has published over fourteen volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into numerous languages, including Italian, French, and German. He lives in Gliwice, Poland, and works at the Rafal Wojaczek Institute in Mikolów. Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning poet and translator of a dozen volumes of contemporary Polish poetry. He teaches global literary studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Alice-Catherine Carls is Tom Elam Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Martin. She is a translator from Polish and English into French and from French into English.

"Jaded, ironic, yet also searching with poignancy and depth for a meaning that may or may not be there in the world around him, Siwczyk’s poems are appropriate to our contemporary moment and our contemporary world. Although he is known for demystifying the civilization he lives in, to a non-Polish reader, there is plenty of metaphysical thinking in his verse, and much mystery still present in the situations he depicts. . . . This is a compelling selection that will surely invite more people to explore the work of a provocative yet thoughtful poet."

Krzysztof Siwczyk is an award-winning poet, critic, and essayist from Poland. He has published over fourteen volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into numerous languages, including Italian, French, and German. He lives in Gliwice, Poland, and works at the Rafal Wojaczek Institute in Mikolów. Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning poet and translator of a dozen volumes of contemporary Polish poetry. He teaches global literary studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Alice-Catherine Carls is Tom Elam Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Martin. She is a translator from Polish and English into French and from French into English.

"Jaded, ironic, yet also searching with poignancy and depth for a meaning that may or may not be there in the world around him, Siwczyk’s poems are appropriate to our contemporary moment and our contemporary world. Although he is known for demystifying the civilization he lives in, to a non-Polish reader, there is plenty of metaphysical thinking in his verse, and much mystery still present in the situations he depicts. . . . This is a compelling selection that will surely invite more people to explore the work of a provocative yet thoughtful poet."

Krzysztof Siwczyk is an award-winning poet, critic, and essayist from Poland. He has published over fourteen volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into numerous languages, including Italian, French, and German. He lives in Gliwice, Poland, and works at the Rafal Wojaczek Institute in Mikolów. Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning poet and translator of a dozen volumes of contemporary Polish poetry. He teaches global literary studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Alice-Catherine Carls is Tom Elam Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Martin. She is a translator from Polish and English into French and from French into English.

"Jaded, ironic, yet also searching with poignancy and depth for a meaning that may or may not be there in the world around him, Siwczyk’s poems are appropriate to our contemporary moment and our contemporary world. Although he is known for demystifying the civilization he lives in, to a non-Polish reader, there is plenty of metaphysical thinking in his verse, and much mystery still present in the situations he depicts. . . . This is a compelling selection that will surely invite more people to explore the work of a provocative yet thoughtful poet."