TOMASZ RÓŻYCKI is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and prose. Over the last decade he has garnered almost every prize Poland has to offer as well as widespread critical acclaim, with work translated into numerous languages and frequent appearances at international festivals. In the U.S., he has been featured at the Unterberg Poetry Center, the Princeton Poetry Festival, and the Brooklyn Book Festival. His volume Colonies (translated by Mira Rosenthal) won the Northern California Book Award and was a finalist for numerous other prizes, including the International Griffin Poetry Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

MIRA ROSENTHAL is the author of The Local World, which won the Wick Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Stanford University’s Stegner Fellowship, and her work appears regularly in such journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Guernica, Harvard Review, New England Review, A Public Space, and Oxford American. Her honors include a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, and residencies at Hedgebrook and MacDowell. She teaches creative writing at Cal Poly and lives on the central coast of California.

I: Vacuum Theory

1. Meadow
2. White Dwarf
3. Scenario
4. To Give Water to the Thirsty
5. First Poem for Menelik
6. The Garden
7. Phantom
8. The Third Millennium
9. When Do Acacias Bloom?
10. The Place of “I”
11. The Clock
12. Twelve Letters
13. Pointers
14. Heat Wave
15. The Crisis of Polish Readership
16. There Is No Answer
17. Ż/Ś
18. Lavinia
19. Vacuum Theory
20. Mirror
21. Elements
22. The Measure of All Things
23. A Room
24. Dog
25. A Few Hours
26. Rain
27. A Photograph
28. Wild Strawberries
29. Updraft
30. Poor Painters
31. Via Giulia
32. Metamorphoses
33. At the End of the Day

II: The Third Planet

34. Chaos Theory
35. Effigy
36. Ghost
37. Message
38. Inheritance
39. A Turn
40. Essential Features
41. Hair by Hair
42. The Eternal War of Opposites
43. Glass Houses
44. This Era
45. Clay
46. Contract
47. Cocoon
48. Settings
[...]omaidan
50. An Act of Speech
51. Lacki Brzeg, Ukraine
52. In the Cave
53. Revenge Bank
54. Squiggle
55. My Consultants
56. Warsaw Saw War
57. Demolition
58. Two Days’ Time
59. The Third Planet
60. Rhythm, Order and Position
61. Distillery
62. Even Now
63. The Crisis of the Polish State
64. Wind
65. Stone
66. What of Him?

III: Summer of Music

67. Summer of Music
68. Sorting
69. Why
70. Scent
71. Formula
72. Summertime
73. Porta Susa
74. The Law of Conservation of Energy
75. The Warmest Place
76. All-Night Shops
77. Any Number
78. The Crisis of Readership
79. Spring Awakening
80. Virus
81. Puzzle
82. Features
83. Piazza del Nettuno
84. An Unexpected Turn of Events
85. The Silk Road
86. Reverse
87. In the Bushes
88. A Glass
89. This Dog’s Life
90. Outside Prudnik
91. Backpack
92. Never
93. Shadow
94. What Makes No Motion?
95. The Cave of the Nymphs
96. The Divine Comedy
97. Second Poem for Menelik
98. The Trail Goes Cold
99. Open