{"product_id":"twelve-stations-9780983297048","title":"Twelve Stations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Although the past is a constant theme in Rózycki's work, the present erupts with no less urgency . . . he witnesses the ant-like unimportance of human beings viewed from a cosmic perspective.\"--Helen Vendler, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hero of the mock poem, Grandson, leaves his hometown of Opole, in the western Polish region of Silesia, to organize a family reunion in the Ukraine where his family had lived before World War II--before being forcibly resettled along with many thousands of other Poles. In this, his sixth book, Tomasz Rózycki talks back, both to history and to important literary predecessors such as Czeslaw Milosz and Adam Mickiewicz, in language that is as playful as it is masterful. \u003ci\u003eTwelve Stations\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful work of contemporary world poetry by one of its most outstanding practitioners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2004 \u003ci\u003eTwelve Stations\u003c\/i\u003e won the prestigious Koscielski Foundation Prize and was named best Book of the Spring 2004 by the Raczynski Library in Poznan and its translator Bill Johnston received the 2008 Found in Translation Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTomasz Rózycki\u003c\/b\u003e also has received the Krzysztof Kamiel Baczynski Prize (1997), the Czas Kultury Prize (1997), The Rainer Maria Rilke Award (1998), and the Joseph Brodskie Prize from Zeszyty Literackie (2006), and has been nominated twice for Poland's most prestigious literary award, the NIKE Prize (2005 and 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomasz Rózycki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zephyr Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e New Polish Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983297048","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713694863497,"sku":"9780983297048","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_4e987f22-0058-4fed-b88f-c6df0fbf4a38.jpg?v=1719620065","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/twelve-stations-9780983297048","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}