{"product_id":"to-the-letter-poems","title":"To the Letter: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTo the Letter: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTomasz Rozycki\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781953861726\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eArchipelago\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love - detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.\"--Polish Book Institute \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRóżycki collects moments of illumination - a cat dashing out of a window and \"feral sun\" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTomasz Różycki's \u003ci\u003eTo the Letter \u003c\/i\u003efollows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot: fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits \"this is the story of my confusion,\" and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail. \"This lunacy needs a full investigation,\" he jibes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe wants to get to the bottom of it all, but he's often bewitched by letters and the trickery of language. Diacritics on Polish words form a \"flock of sooty flecks, clinging to letters\" and Lieutenant Anielewicz studies the tails, accents, and strokes that twist this script. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the Lieutenant can't write a coherent code to solve life's mysteries or to fill the absence of a country rent by war, his search for patterns throughout art, philosophy, and literature lead not to despair but to an affirmation of the importance of human love\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"To the Letter: Poems | Tomasz Rozycki | Paperback | 9781953861726 | New | Poetry 1588353","offer_id":50632615526658,"sku":"1588353","price":32.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71Bpi7Q0o8L.jpg?v=1791231239","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/to-the-letter-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}