Ewa Lipska (born 8 October 1945 in

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), is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into

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and Hungarian. She lives in

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comments: "While her verse may have some connections with politics, it always documents concrete personal experiences without reaching for grand generalizations. As it unmasks the language of

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also indicates the weaknesses of

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Books

Poetry collections

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

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1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

: ''Drugi wybor wierszy'', ("Second Collection of Poems"); Warsaw: Czytelnik *

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

: ''Trzeci wybor wierszy'', ("Third Collection of Poems"); Warsaw: Czytelnik *

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

: ''Czwarty wybor wierszy'', ("Fourth Collection of Verse"); Warsaw: Czytelnik *

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

: ''Piaty wybor wierszy'', ("Fifth Collection of Verse"); Warsaw: Czytelnik *

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

: ''Dom spokojnej młodości'' ("A Home for Youth"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

: ''Zywa smierc'', ("Living Death"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

: ''Poezje wybrane'' ("Selected Poems"), Warszawa: LSW *

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...

: ''Nie o śmierć tutaj chodzi, lecz o biały kordonek'' ("Death Is Not at Stake, But the White Cord"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

: ''Przechowalnia ciemnosci'', ("Storage for Darkness"); Warsaw: Przedswit / Warszawska Oficyna Poetow i Malarzy *

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

: ''Utwory wybrane'' ("Selected Work"), Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

: ''Strefa ograniczonego postoju'', ("Limited Standing Zone"); Warsaw: Czytelnik *

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

: ''Wakacje mizantropa. Utwory wybrane'' ("Misanthrope Holidays: Selected Work"), Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

: ''Stypendisci czasu'', ("Time's Scholarship Winners"); Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie *

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

: ''Wspólnicy zielonego wiatraczka. Lekcja literatury z Krzysztofem Lisowskim'' ("Partners of the Green Fan: Literature Lesson with Krzysztof Lisowski"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

: ''Ludzie dla poczatkujacych'', ("People for Beginners"); Poznan: a5 *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

: ''Godziny poza godzinami'' ("Hours Beyond Hours"), selected poems, Warsaw: PIW *

: ''Życie zastępcze'', Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

: ''1999'', Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

: ''Sklepy zoologiczne'', ("Pet Shops"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

: ''Uwaga: stopień'', Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

: ''Ja'' ("I"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: ''Gdzie indziej'', ("Somewhere else"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

: ''Drzazga'', Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: ''Pomarańcza Newtona'', ("Newton's Orange"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie

Prose

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

: ''Sefer'' (prose), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie

Other

*2018: ''Boli tylko, gdy się śmieję... Listy i rozmowy'',

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'' *:From book description: "... Contains records of conversations the poet and the writer had in early 21st century , as well as the letters which Ewa Lipska exchanged with Stanisław Lem's son when he sudied in the United States. The book is adorned with numerous photos."

Selected translations of poetry by Ewa Lipska

*(English) ''Poet? Criminal? Madman?'' (''Poems''). London-Boston: Forest Books, 1991. *(French) ''Poemes. Deux poétesses Polonaises contemporaines: Ewa Lipska et Wislawa Szymborska.'' Mundolsheim: L'Ancrier, 1996. *(German) ''Auf den dächern der mausoleen. Gedichte.'' Berlin: Oberbaum, 1983. *(German) ''Meine zeit. Mein lieb. Mein. leben. Geditchte.'' Salzburg, Wien: Residenz, 1990. *(Danish) ''En misantrops ferie.'' Aarhus: Husets, 1990. *(English) ''The New Century.'' Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009 *(Spanish) ''La astilla. La naranja de Newton'' Ediciones TREA, 2010. *(Dutch) ''Beste mevrouw Schubert'', Gent, Poëziecentrum, 2015. *(Italian) ''Il lettore di impronte digitali'', Rome: Donzelli, 2017.

References

External links

Essay on Ewa Lipska at www.culture.pl

Polish bibliography
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