Magdalena Kay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magdalena Kay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magdalena |
| FAMILY NAME | Kay |
| SIGNATURE | KAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Calligraphy of Days
My Infinity by Didi Jackson (review)
The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry
Aleksandra Kremer's meticulous scholarly study, The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry: Performance and Recording after World War II, focuses on the material history of something often thought to defy material representation—poetry. The study situates itself historically by hypothesizing that Polish poets born in the first decades of the twentieth century became especially interested in reading their own poetry aloud and recording it, whether or not t…
True Life
Reviewed by: True Life: Poems by Adam Zagajewski Magdalena Kay (bio) ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI True Life: Poems Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 80 pages. THERE IS SOMETHING MAGICAL about receiving a new book by an author who is no longer living. It is an unexpected gift, bringing with it a sense of excess or what Seamus Heaney called overlife, something over and above our expectations. Although it was inevitable that Adam …
Miłosz and the Problem of Evil [Sekrety manichejskich trucizn]
Jane HirshfieldLedger
Equally fascinating are the texts following the poems—where we also get a glimpse into the surprising complexity of translation approaches employed across this map of this endangered poetic world. For example, the Tamajaght poetry quoted above is a third cousin to the original— first transcribed by the poet, Hawad, from Tamajaght into a graphic illustrated version , rendering the poetry using a modified Tifinagh alphabet with added vowels; then i…
Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski
cage, inside her house, inside her crumbling city. The reality she has created is soon destroyed after the appearance of a Hollywood actor, Gerónimo, who has come to interview her regarding her father, Mauricio Antonio Rodríguez, “el macho”, for a film he is making. Cleo’s whole life and history, as she knows it, is called into question by this investigation of her father’s life, leaving her shaken to the core as she moves through the falsified f…
Slight Exaggeration by Adam Zagajewski
FEATURED REVIEW Adam Zagajewski Slight Exaggeration Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2017. 275 pages. Slight Exaggeration announces itself playfully , in a faithful translation of the Polish opening: “I won’t tell all regardless.” “I tak wszystkiego nie opowiem” answers an unuttered promise to tell more, presumably, than we have already got—but even so (“I tak”), this will be no tell-all confession. Is this an indirect co…
Stormwarning by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir
VERSE Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir Stormwarning Trans. K. B. Thors. Los Angeles. Phoneme Media. 2018. 68 pages. Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir has done the seemingly impossible: taken our contemporary capitalist culture, suffused with moralism as well as not-so-hidden prejudice , glorying in its achievements while squandering its wealth, and submitted it to critique while making us laugh at the whole thing. Not all these poems are funny, but the most str…
In Gratitude for All the Gifts
Oxygen by Bill Johnston
uttered in the service of this or that politics or aesthetics. Piotr Florczyk University of Southern California Julia Fiedorczuk. Oxygen. Trans. Bill Johnston. Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2017. 110 pages. Oxygen is a modest sampling of Julia Fiedorczuk ’s poems—not quite a Selected Poems—that falls into three categories: “Lands and Oceans,” “Autobiographia Litteraria ,” and “Psalms in the Making.” Dramatically different in focus, each…
The High Caul Cap by Medbh McGuckian
reviews wiry white- and-brown wool and endless black eyes. Like Imperial Valley— the borderland where López’s poems originate—he saturates the pages with a sense of in-betweeness; however, the conversationaltoneandthefragmented verse are all a part of the rhythm of instability on the border. López invites readers to be split in two: the United States and Mexico. Some readers may feel inexperienced on this subject, but López’s poems invite the rea…
The Sun King by Conor O'Callaghan
reviews cannot get pregnant.” The second section, “Ave Patria,” returns to Serbian history and events from the perspective of an emigrant who dreams of returning to his idealized homeland but, when he does, cannot find anyone to communicate with and returns to the US disappointed. In the section “From Spring into Winter,” he observes nature and different seasons, followed with a section of love poems for an unidentified love, presumably his decea…
My Poems Won't Change the World
112 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews in our political and religious alliances . Her poem highlights the arbitrary nature of the affinities and rivalries that shape the world. She concludes with the provocative question: “Who has salvation / when we all claim it?” Breaking the Jaws of Silence is a chorus of American voices speaking out against a dark world with the power of verse. Abigail Heiniger Wayne State University Patrizia Cavalli. My Poems …
Seamus Heaney, Zbigniew Herbert, and the Moral Imperative
One of the life-giving paradoxes of comparative influence is that looking outward for inspiration often results in a keener gaze inward: introspection directly benefits from extroversion. Thomas Docherty notes that Irish writers often look outward when they seem to be most introspective, adducing Yeats's fascination with Byzantium, Joyce's enthrallment with the Mediterranean, and, more recently, Paul Durcan's interest in seeing “home” from “elsew…
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass
Lawrence Osborne The Forgiven Hogarth Driving to their friends’ exotic get-together in the remote Moroccan Sahara, Dr. David Henniger and his wife unexpectedly invite a dead body as their “plus one.” The couple suffers the immediate consequences of the pre-party crash and its eye-opening repercussions upon their marriage. A nomadic journalist and hardened traveler, Lawrence Osborne details the physically and emotionally draining journey of the di…
Building the Barricade and Other Poems by Anna Swir
Manoj Kumar Panda The Bone Garden and Other Stories Rupantar: A Centre for English Translation “What is there in a story, after all?” So begins the introductory author’s note for this first collection of short stories translated in English by Panda. In 2010 the collection was long-listed for the prestigious Cork City–Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, one of ten Asian short-story collections represented. Translator Jayanta Mahapatra remarked that …
A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley
A New Map: The Poetry of Migrant Workers in Italy Mia Lecomte & Luigi Bonaffini, eds. Lega In the introduction, editor Mia Lecomte remarks that the “literature of migration” has become an important and lasting aspect of Italian literature. Complex in both language and subject matter—the poets represented in the anthology are not Italian and often must employ a “cursory” language —the poems collected in this anthology manifest the immigrant experi…
Speech Lessons
74 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews has been instrumental in shaping a poetic style of uncommon lucidity, a voice that speaks directly and with philosophical force. Gilbert is a juggler of contradictions , delighting in their strangeness the speaker of his poems is continually invigorated rather than daunted by the paradoxes of life; deprivation and loneliness may come but are seen as ultimately fruitful. In “How Much of That Is Left in Me?,” the p…
Primeval and Other Times
Assessing the Anglo-American Legacy of Czesław Miłosz
Research Article| December 01 2011 ASSESSING THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGACY OF CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ MAGDALENA KAY MAGDALENA KAY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (4): 287–295. https://doi.org/10.2307/41549974 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation MAGDALENA KAY; ASSESSING THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGACY OF CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ. The Polish Review 1 December 20…
An Autumn Wind by Derek Mahon
I 72iWorldLiterature Today JayantaMahapatra. The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974-2008. New Delhi.Authors press.2009. 196 pages. Rs350. isbn 97881 -9273-474-9 Jayanta Mahapatra'sselectedpoems, titledTheLieofDawns:Poems19742008 , containsnearlyone hundred short lyrics,the entiretext of his long poem "Relationship,"a substantial portion of his other long poem, "Temple,"which deals with the feminineprinciple,and some new unpublishedpoems. The poems arranged…
At Grattan Road by Gerard Hanberry
on,fascinated yethorrified bywhat is remembered in feeling, but not quitein unchanging detail.Hereis partofa sentence from one ofthe volume'sprosepoems:"... metoo withmycrystal ballthemetal bowl inthewhiteliving room, bowlperfectforwashingcaked -upbones, sediment falling downoveritsstars ..." Relentlessly, image builds upon image - a short quotation hardlyreproduces itseffect - until one is overwhelmed by what is abouttohappenandwhatalready hasha…
Niewidzialna ráo1ka by Adam Zagajewski
the Sea/' "Two Continents," and "Windswept on the Land." Its pre dominant themes are celebration of the visual life and memories, and separation of the present from a former self and place. The reader enters into a world of riotous colors, universal landscapes in a densely packed array of such vivid imagery that, if taken in too quickly, threatens to overload the senses. The poet's eye, like a videographer's lens, soars over scenes of skies and s…
The Essential Guide to Flight by Celeste Augé
VERSE Celeste Auge. The Essential Guide to Flight. Cliffsof Moher, County Clare, Ireland. Salmon (Dufour, distr.). 2009.81 pages. $21.95. isbn978-1-907056-05-5 Celeste Auge craftspoems that are clean and precise. They are brief lyricsthatexercise theirforce within a well-contained area, cutting them selves short at the exact point when furtherlength would attenuate their claims. Yet this salutary quality is also theweakness of these poems: the sh…
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Between Dawn and the Wind. Selected Poetry
At Grattan Road by Gerard Hanberry
on,fascinated yethorrified bywhat is remembered in feeling, but not quitein unchanging detail.Hereis partofa sentence from one ofthe volume'sprosepoems:"... metoo withmycrystal ballthemetal bowl inthewhiteliving room, bowlperfectforwashingcaked -upbones, sediment falling downoveritsstars ..." Relentlessly, image builds upon image - a short quotation hardlyreproduces itseffect - until one is overwhelmed by what is abouttohappenandwhatalready hasha…
Niewidzialna ráo1ka by Adam Zagajewski
the Sea/' "Two Continents," and "Windswept on the Land." Its pre dominant themes are celebration of the visual life and memories, and separation of the present from a former self and place. The reader enters into a world of riotous colors, universal landscapes in a densely packed array of such vivid imagery that, if taken in too quickly, threatens to overload the senses. The poet's eye, like a videographer's lens, soars over scenes of skies and s…
The Essential Guide to Flight by Celeste Augé
VERSE Celeste Auge. The Essential Guide to Flight. Cliffsof Moher, County Clare, Ireland. Salmon (Dufour, distr.). 2009.81 pages. $21.95. isbn978-1-907056-05-5 Celeste Auge craftspoems that are clean and precise. They are brief lyricsthatexercise theirforce within a well-contained area, cutting them selves short at the exact point when furtherlength would attenuate their claims. Yet this salutary quality is also theweakness of these poems: the sh…
Standing in the Pizzicato Rain by Georgina Eddison
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW ^^^ ^^^^^^^H breaking legacies in Latin American poetry still remain at the forefront. One could also bemoan the absence of other poets in a volume of this nature (after all, an anthology will never please everyone). However, a more important concern worth noting about this ambitious work is that while some countries are rep resented by several authors (Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, Chile), others are barely repre…
Primeval and Other Times
Assessing the Anglo-American Legacy of Czesław Miłosz
Research Article| December 01 2011 ASSESSING THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGACY OF CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ MAGDALENA KAY MAGDALENA KAY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (4): 287–295. https://doi.org/10.2307/41549974 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation MAGDALENA KAY; ASSESSING THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGACY OF CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ. The Polish Review 1 December 20…
An Autumn Wind by Derek Mahon
I 72iWorldLiterature Today JayantaMahapatra. The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974-2008. New Delhi.Authors press.2009. 196 pages. Rs350. isbn 97881 -9273-474-9 Jayanta Mahapatra'sselectedpoems, titledTheLieofDawns:Poems19742008 , containsnearlyone hundred short lyrics,the entiretext of his long poem "Relationship,"a substantial portion of his other long poem, "Temple,"which deals with the feminineprinciple,and some new unpublishedpoems. The poems arranged…
Building the Barricade and Other Poems by Anna Swir
Manoj Kumar Panda The Bone Garden and Other Stories Rupantar: A Centre for English Translation “What is there in a story, after all?” So begins the introductory author’s note for this first collection of short stories translated in English by Panda. In 2010 the collection was long-listed for the prestigious Cork City–Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, one of ten Asian short-story collections represented. Translator Jayanta Mahapatra remarked that …
A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley
A New Map: The Poetry of Migrant Workers in Italy Mia Lecomte & Luigi Bonaffini, eds. Lega In the introduction, editor Mia Lecomte remarks that the “literature of migration” has become an important and lasting aspect of Italian literature. Complex in both language and subject matter—the poets represented in the anthology are not Italian and often must employ a “cursory” language —the poems collected in this anthology manifest the immigrant experi…
Speech Lessons
74 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews has been instrumental in shaping a poetic style of uncommon lucidity, a voice that speaks directly and with philosophical force. Gilbert is a juggler of contradictions , delighting in their strangeness the speaker of his poems is continually invigorated rather than daunted by the paradoxes of life; deprivation and loneliness may come but are seen as ultimately fruitful. In “How Much of That Is Left in Me?,” the p…
Seamus Heaney, Zbigniew Herbert, and the Moral Imperative
One of the life-giving paradoxes of comparative influence is that looking outward for inspiration often results in a keener gaze inward: introspection directly benefits from extroversion. Thomas Docherty notes that Irish writers often look outward when they seem to be most introspective, adducing Yeats's fascination with Byzantium, Joyce's enthrallment with the Mediterranean, and, more recently, Paul Durcan's interest in seeing “home” from “elsew…
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass
Lawrence Osborne The Forgiven Hogarth Driving to their friends’ exotic get-together in the remote Moroccan Sahara, Dr. David Henniger and his wife unexpectedly invite a dead body as their “plus one.” The couple suffers the immediate consequences of the pre-party crash and its eye-opening repercussions upon their marriage. A nomadic journalist and hardened traveler, Lawrence Osborne details the physically and emotionally draining journey of the di…
The High Caul Cap by Medbh McGuckian
reviews wiry white- and-brown wool and endless black eyes. Like Imperial Valley— the borderland where López’s poems originate—he saturates the pages with a sense of in-betweeness; however, the conversationaltoneandthefragmented verse are all a part of the rhythm of instability on the border. López invites readers to be split in two: the United States and Mexico. Some readers may feel inexperienced on this subject, but López’s poems invite the rea…
The Sun King by Conor O'Callaghan
reviews cannot get pregnant.” The second section, “Ave Patria,” returns to Serbian history and events from the perspective of an emigrant who dreams of returning to his idealized homeland but, when he does, cannot find anyone to communicate with and returns to the US disappointed. In the section “From Spring into Winter,” he observes nature and different seasons, followed with a section of love poems for an unidentified love, presumably his decea…
My Poems Won't Change the World
112 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews in our political and religious alliances . Her poem highlights the arbitrary nature of the affinities and rivalries that shape the world. She concludes with the provocative question: “Who has salvation / when we all claim it?” Breaking the Jaws of Silence is a chorus of American voices speaking out against a dark world with the power of verse. Abigail Heiniger Wayne State University Patrizia Cavalli. My Poems …
In Gratitude for All the Gifts
Oxygen by Bill Johnston
uttered in the service of this or that politics or aesthetics. Piotr Florczyk University of Southern California Julia Fiedorczuk. Oxygen. Trans. Bill Johnston. Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2017. 110 pages. Oxygen is a modest sampling of Julia Fiedorczuk ’s poems—not quite a Selected Poems—that falls into three categories: “Lands and Oceans,” “Autobiographia Litteraria ,” and “Psalms in the Making.” Dramatically different in focus, each…
Slight Exaggeration by Adam Zagajewski
FEATURED REVIEW Adam Zagajewski Slight Exaggeration Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2017. 275 pages. Slight Exaggeration announces itself playfully , in a faithful translation of the Polish opening: “I won’t tell all regardless.” “I tak wszystkiego nie opowiem” answers an unuttered promise to tell more, presumably, than we have already got—but even so (“I tak”), this will be no tell-all confession. Is this an indirect co…
Stormwarning by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir
VERSE Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir Stormwarning Trans. K. B. Thors. Los Angeles. Phoneme Media. 2018. 68 pages. Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir has done the seemingly impossible: taken our contemporary capitalist culture, suffused with moralism as well as not-so-hidden prejudice , glorying in its achievements while squandering its wealth, and submitted it to critique while making us laugh at the whole thing. Not all these poems are funny, but the most str…
Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski
cage, inside her house, inside her crumbling city. The reality she has created is soon destroyed after the appearance of a Hollywood actor, Gerónimo, who has come to interview her regarding her father, Mauricio Antonio Rodríguez, “el macho”, for a film he is making. Cleo’s whole life and history, as she knows it, is called into question by this investigation of her father’s life, leaving her shaken to the core as she moves through the falsified f…
Miłosz and the Problem of Evil [Sekrety manichejskich trucizn]
Jane HirshfieldLedger
Equally fascinating are the texts following the poems—where we also get a glimpse into the surprising complexity of translation approaches employed across this map of this endangered poetic world. For example, the Tamajaght poetry quoted above is a third cousin to the original— first transcribed by the poet, Hawad, from Tamajaght into a graphic illustrated version , rendering the poetry using a modified Tifinagh alphabet with added vowels; then i…
True Life
Reviewed by: True Life: Poems by Adam Zagajewski Magdalena Kay (bio) ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI True Life: Poems Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 80 pages. THERE IS SOMETHING MAGICAL about receiving a new book by an author who is no longer living. It is an unexpected gift, bringing with it a sense of excess or what Seamus Heaney called overlife, something over and above our expectations. Although it was inevitable that Adam …
My Infinity by Didi Jackson (review)
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