Adam Zdrodowski

- Poland -

Poet and translator, working in English and Polish; the author of three collections of poetry: Przygody, etc. (2005, Adventures, etc.), Jesień Zuzanny (2007, Susanna’s Autumn) and 47 lotów balonem (2013, 47 Balloon Flights). He translated authors such as Mark Ford, Rod Mengham, Vahni Capildeo Henry Green, James Schuyler, Gertrude Stein, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Roussel, Harryette Mullen, and Grzegorz Wróblewski. His poems appeared in journals and anthologies, including Jacket, Past Simple, 3:AM Magazine, the Danish Ny polsk poesi. 10 polske lyrikere (Arena 2010) and the Swedish OEI. He lives in Warsaw, Poland.


Index of translated works:

Translations into Polish:
Mark Ford, Chwila nieuwagi, with Jacek Gutorow, Instytut Mikołowski 2014
Rod Mengham, Rokowania i potyczki / Parleys and Skirmishes, with Tadeusz Pióro, Instytucja Kultury Ars Cameralis 2007
Henry Green, Back (excerpts), Literatura na Świecie, 3-4/2012
Gerard Barrett, “Souvenirs from France: Textual Traumatism in Henry Green’s Back,” Literatura na Świecie, 3-4/2012
Marcus Slease, 5 poems, Helikopter: http://opt-art.net/helikopter/slowa/marcus-slease-piec-wierszy-z-tomu-hello-tiny-bird-brain-2011/
Forrest Gander, 5 poems, Literatura na Świecie, 11-12/2010
Harryette Mullen, 10 poems, Literatura na Świecie, 11-12/2010
Gertrude Stein, “Lifting Belly” (“Ciężki brzuszek”), Literatura na Świecie, 7-8/2003
Charles Bernstein, “Professing Stein/Stein Professing” (“Ujmując Stein/Stein ujmująca”), Literatura na Świecie, 7-8/2003
James Schuyler, 10 poems, Literatura na Świecie, 7-8/2007
William S. Burroughs, “Paris Please Stay the Same,” “The Bay of Pigs”, “God’s Own Medicine”,   “Prisoners of the Earth Come Out”, Literatura na Świecie 7-8/2005
Raymond Roussel, “La Peau verdâtre de la prune” (“Zielonkawa skóra dojrzałej śliwki”), Literatura na Świecie, 9-10/2007
Derek Attridge, “Reading Joyce,” “Czytanie Joyce’a”, Literatura na Świecie, 7-8/2004

Translations into English:
Grzegorz Wróblewski, A Marzipan Factory, Otoliths 2010
Grzegorz Wróblewski, Mercury Project, Toad Press 2008
Grzegorz Wróblewski, Our Flying Objects, with Joel Leonard Katz, Rod Mengham, Malcolm Sinclair, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Equipage 2007