Jakub Kornhauser

Jakub Kornhauser (1984) a Polish poet, essayist and translator. He works at the Jagiellonian University as a literature specialist and founded the Centre of Studies of the AvantGarde there. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen works and the editor of several periodicals and editorial series. He translates avant-garde literature from French, Romanian and Serbian into Polish. In 2016, he was awarded the Wisława Szymborska prize for his collection Drożdżownia. He has recently published a collection of essays entitled Wolność krzepi (2018) as well as the monograph Awangarda. Strajki, zakłócenia, deformacje (2017). He lives in Krakow.

From Prose Poems (kulturaupodstaw.pl, 2022)

Translated from Polish by Piotr Florczyk

Arna aistriú ón bPolainnis ag Colm Breathnach

Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher