Scattering the Dark

<div><p>Wow! What a book! The tradition of women's writing that flows out of the work of Symborska and Anna Swir—the way this mighty tradition turns in the hands of a younger generation from the traumatic history of their country to a poetics of everyday life of play and experiment. An absolutely rich and appealing book.—Robert Hass</p><p>These cosmopolitan multilingual poets speak to us across the decades overcoming a great silence redirecting the myths reimagining the role of the poet and the nature of poetry itself. <I>Scattering the Dark </I>is a useful subversive even necessary anthology.—Edward Hirsch</p><p><I>Scattering the Dark </I>offers a lively selection of over thirty of Poland's women poets writing before and after the fall of communism.</p><p><B>Karen Kovacik </B>is a translator and poet.</p></div>