Title: Butterflies
Publisher: Wydawn. Literackie
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: 1st edition.
Dual language: printed in Polish & English. 163 printed pages. Gift inscription on front free endpaper from translator. 17 x 24.5 cm. Original white cloth with green lettering on spine & upper cover. Complete with original dust jacket designed by Andrzej Dudzinski. A comprehensive selection of Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska's poetry translated into English by Barbara Plebanek & Tony Howard. Provenance:- Helene Haw, who taught French literature at Trinity College, Cambridge and one of whose pupils was translator and academic Tony Howard.
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891-1945) , was a prolific Polish poet known as the Polish Sappho and "queen of lyrical poetry" who published twelve volumes of poetry and established herself as one of the most innovative poets of Poland's interwar period.