Maternity | Review of Talking to My Body
In the following review, Howard calls the poems in “Talking to My Body” quite simple and accessible but profound.
Anna Swir’s Talking to My Body, as the title implies, concentrates on the body. This work may receive more attention than it might have otherwise as a result of another Polish woman, Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1990. Talking to My Body is a large collection, with approximately 150 pages of poetry, a dialogue between translators Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan, and an introduction. The poems typically are quite simple and accessible but profound. Swir’s poems are also short. Milosz notes in the dialogue that “There has been a...
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