Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston. Zephyr Press (paperback, 2008) Publisher Marketing: "No one is born a poet without pain," writes acclaimed Polish poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. In Peregrinary, a selection from his nine volumes of poetry to date, Tkaczyszyn-Dycki offers deeply personal meditations on suffering and dying, and on the dead and our relationship with them. At the same time and in an unmistakable poetic voice, he interweaves his autobiography, combining spirituality, eroticism, and nostalgia to create a unique narrative of travel, sickness, and the poet's place. The book's title refers to the itinerary of the pilgrim and relates both to the real journeys and the metaphorical ones of the writer's own life, in which he has chosen "poetry as a place on earth."
