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Language: English
Published by Broken Sleep Books, 2024
- Softcover
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- Title
- Queen Cells
- Author
- Lebda, Malgorzata
- Publisher
- Broken Sleep Books
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1916938388
- ISBN 13
- 9781916938380
Dedicated to soil, Queen Cells contains thirty-one poems, in both their native Polish and translated English, arranged in four sections. These poems span a seasonal year in the life of one family and one small village, Żeleźnikowa Wielka, in the Beskid Mountains of southern Poland. This village, with its fields, forest, slaughterhouse and neighbours, becomes the book's protagonist. The important figures of father and mother, of animals (bees, cows, dogs), of fire and water contribute to the communal and private rituals of love, illness, healing, death. Małgorzata Lebda's writing is organic, unflinching yet tender, and Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese's translations provide readers with a vivid, immediate way into this poet's dark and luminous world.
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About the Author
Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese is a multilingual poet, literary translator, academic, accredited coach and book artist. As a Fulbright scholar, she worked at the Elizabeth Bishop archives. She co-curates and runs 'Transreading' courses on translocal and hybrid poetries for the Poetry School in London. Her site-specific verbal and visual texts use such analogue processes as botanical inkmaking, cyanotype, pinhole photography, expressive handwriting and bookmaking. She currently lives in Copenhagen and is a 'creative ambassador' for the Møn UNESCO Biosphere. IG: @elzbietawojcikleese
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