{"product_id":"to-the-letter-poems-isbn-9781953861726","title":"To the Letter: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love – detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.”—Polish Book Institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRóżycki collects moments of illumination – a cat dashing out of a window and \"feral sun\" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTomasz Różycki's \u003ci\u003eTo the Letter \u003c\/i\u003efollows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot: fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits \"this is the story of my confusion,\" and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail. \"This lunacy needs a full investigation,\" he jibes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe wants to get to the bottom of it all, but he's often bewitched by letters and the trickery of language. Diacritics on Polish words form a \"flock of sooty flecks, clinging to letters\" and Lieutenant Anielewicz studies the tails, accents, and strokes that twist this script.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the Lieutenant can't write a coherent code to solve life's mysteries or to fill the absence of a country rent by war, his search for patterns throughout art, philosophy, and literature lead not to despair but to an affirmation of the importance of human love","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300258631909,"sku":"NP9781953861726","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781953861726.jpg?v=1767742727","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/to-the-letter-poems-isbn-9781953861726","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}