Maternity | Themes of Body and Love
In the following review, Carpenter compares the themes of the body and love in the poems in “Talking to My Body” to Swir’s earlier war poems.
Talking to My Body is the third volume of poetry in English by Anna Swir (her real name was Anna Swirszczy—ska); Happy as a Dog’s Tail appeared in a translation by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan in 1985, and Building the Barricade, a volume of poems about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, translated by Magnus J. Kry—ski and Robert A. Maguire, was published in Poland in 1979. Almost simultaneous with this latest superb translation of her poetry in English, Milosz—who has been Swir’s enthusiastic promoter on both sides of the Atlantic—published a brilliant...
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