On Centaurs and Other Poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka

On Centaurs and Other Poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka, translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky / ISBN 9781954218109 / 256-page paperback published in 2023 by World Poetry Books *** “To read Zuzanna Ginczanka is to witness—through the merciless gun barrel of history—the vanishing of a visionary, surreal world. A poet of a tragic biography, Ginczanka sings history with unparalleled sublimity, irony, and anguish.”- Valzhyna Mort The first selected volume in English of Zuzanna Ginczanka, a visionary Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish poet of the inter-war years whose life was cut short by the Holocaust. “Zuzanna Ginczanka’s On Centaurs is a gorgeous and important book, overdue in English. Openings like ‘Electricity, yellowish’ and ‘(Today childhood came to me unraveling)’ launch mystical, sensual quests through a lost world. Alex Braslavsky has translated each of these quests exquisitely.”- Jennifer Croft “To enter the cosmology of Zuzanna Ginczanka’s poetry is to rediscover a sense of wonder, to gain n