Poetry. Translation from the Polish by Bill Johnston. PEREGRINARY is a selection from acclaimed Polish poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's nine volumes of poetry. Tkaczyszyn-Dycki offers deeply personal meditations on suffering and dying, and on the dead and our relationship with them. At the same time and in an unmistakable poetic voice, he interweaves his autobiography, combining spirituality, eroticism, and nostalgia to create a unique narrative of travel, sickness, and the poet's place. The book's title refers to the itinerary of the pilgrim and relates both to the real journeys and the metaphorical ones of the writer's own life, in which he has chosen "poetry as a place on earth." Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki has won numerous literary prizes both in Poland and elsewhere. Bill Johnston, winner of several awards in translation, delivers Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's first book-length publication in English.

Author City: WARSAW POL

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (b.1962, Wólka Krowicka), after graduating in Polish Literature from the Maria Curie-Sklodoska University in Lublin, worked as a schoolteacher. He has published nine collections of poetry in Poland.

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