Mother Departs

A unique mix of prose and poetry, of the joy of life and the agony of loss, in Mother Departs Różewicz creates a rich and complex portrait of his mother Stefania and of her indelible influence on her extraordinary family.

Weaving together fragments from diaries, stories and notebooks — including moving texts written by his two brothers and Stefania herself — Różewicz creates a portrait of their lives and relationships which is sometimes brutal, often hilarious, and always tender.

Here is an artist attempting to give form, even meaning, to life — and death.

‘One of the great European poets of the twentieth century’ Seamus Heaney

• Author
• Tadeusz Różewicz, Barbara Bogoczek, Tony Howard

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 96

• Publisher
• Stork Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780957391215

• Genres
• poetry, poland, literature

• Release date
• 2013