Waves Whisper the Shoreline to Life is truly a beautiful and remarkable book. You must be very happy and very proud of such a brilliant collection. A whole life, your life, so many lives: through your experiences and your interactions with your grandparents and your parents and your friends and your child, you touch us so softly and sting us in turn. And with all these lives, filled with suffering and joy and peace and pain and terror and simple happiness, you carry such a deeply resonant sense of place, from your childhood in the clear cool air of Poland to the summer storms of Queensland. I love your sensitivity and the way you give me a subtle sense of changing light and times and moods of day fading into night fading into day, and the responses of the landscape to the light and to the seasons.
And those terrible, unspeakable poems from the Congo. There is nothing I can say about them, but be struck silent by the tragedy and horror. The economy of your writing sharpens the focus and plunges me into recognition of unassuagable pain. They are a great achievement.
And I resonate to the staunch and clear feminism which runs through them all -- a strong woman writing! Wonderful!
Thank you very much Agnieszka, you have made a book which will be a great treasure for so many of us.
