Poems of Grzegorz Musial
Subtitle: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of ash
By: Grzegorz Musiał ; translated by Lia Purpura.
Contributors: Purpura, Lia, 1964-; Musiał, Grzegorz, 1952-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Madison; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Musiał, Grzegorz, 1952-  -- Translations into English.
Other titles: Taste of ash.
Description: Grzegorz Musial's Berliner Tagebuch (1989) and Taste of Ash (1992) appeared on either side of the political fault line that was the collapse of communism in Poland. Collected here, in one volume, these works present the power and urgency of one of Poland's most important young poets. Berliner Tagebuch [Berlin Diary] addresses questions of memory, guilt, and responsibility for the Holocaust, as well as the poet's desire to resist the cruelty of time.

In Taste of Ash, Musial encounters the state not merely of his own country but of Western civilization too, with love poems and spiritual dialogues of intimacy and wonder.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-163).