Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Author
Tadeusz Dąbrowski was born in 1979. He is known as a poet and essayist, but also as a critic, and has published in many well-known publications. He was a fellow of the Yaddo Foundation (USA, 2015), the Omi International Arts Center (USA, 2013), the Vermont Studio Center (2011), Literatur Lana (2011), the International Writers’ House, Graz, Austria (2008), the Polish Ministry of Culture (2007, 2010), the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (2006, 2012) and the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby (2004, 2010). /// As of December 7, 2015
“Die Bäume spielen Wald”
for what distinguishes silence
that is empty from significant silence
deep from shallow
light from dark
deliberate silence from
random silence
is you
— From: “Die Bäume spielen Wald” (Munich, Hanser 2014), unpublished translation from German to English by Catherine Hales
At a reading at the Literaturhaus Zurich on March 31, 2016, Tadeusz Dąbrowski talks to the literary scholar and writer Ilma Rakusa. Photo Ralph Hut