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Poetry Reading and Discussion with聽聽and his translators,聽听补苍诲听

Introductiona and chairing:聽听补苍诲听

Kopenhaga聽is the first comprehensive collection of prose poetry by Grzegorz Wr贸blewski, one of Poland鈥檚 leading contemporary writers. The book offers a series of vignettes from the crossroads of politics and culture, technology and ethics, consumerism and spirituality. It combines two tropes: the emigrant鈥檚 double identity and the ethnographer鈥檚 search for patterns. While ostensibly focused on Denmark, it functions as an investigation of alterity in the post-cold war era of ethnic strife and global capitalism. Whether he writes about refugees in Copenhagen (one of Europe鈥檚 major transnational cities), or the homeless, or the mentally ill, or any other marginalized group, Wr贸blewski points to the moral contradictions of a world supposedly without borders.

Some quotes:

鈥淕rim, glancingly beautiful, always necessary.鈥�

鈥擩oshua Clover

鈥淲r贸blewski is the true poetic chronicler of our 21st century diaspora in all its absurdities and anxieties 鈥� Kopenhaga is a journey to the end of the night that always makes a U-turn in the middle, to take in the latest folly鈥攁nd also self-rescue mission鈥攐f the transplant. Read it and weep鈥攁nd then laugh!鈥�

鈥擬arjorie Perloff

Programme:

1. Piotr Gwiazda about translating of Kopenhaga

2. Grzegorz Wroblewski (in Polish) Piotr Gwiazda (in English) reading excerpts of Kopenhaga

3. Marcus Slease and Adam Zdrodowski presentation of poetry (in Polish translation and English)

4. General discussion/question and answers

Wine reception after the event

All are welcome

搁别驳颈蝉迟谤补迟颈辞苍听.