Opis książki

Rózewicz's poetry is firmly grounded in Poland and in his experiences during and post-WWII, yet it also manages to be timelessly, universally human. The title poem "The Survivor" encapsulates the dichotomies that many other pieces contain: "virtue and crime / truth and falsehood / beauty and ugliness / courage and cowardice." Rózewicz takes on big themes - love, death, art, war, history - and shrinks them down to human proportions, to things that can be grasped within the hands. A stand-out example is the poem "In the Midst of Life." "After the end of the world / after death / I found myself in the midst of life," the narrator begins.

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