Entanglements of the retro-garde. A Nest of Ninnies by Ashbery and Schuyler in the Polish translation

Joanna Orska

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/fp.2024.36.45168

A b s t r a k t

The essay discusses the Polish version of A Nest of Ninnies (1969) by John Ashbery and James Schuyler, translated by Tadeusz Pióro and Andrzej Sosnowski, with Marjorie Perloff’s “unoriginal genius” in the neo-avant-garde as the reference point. The essay also refers to the category of transcreation and the art of translation, which constituted a negation of historical categories of originality and innovativeness, typically associated with the notion of the avant-garde – the source of American modernism in poetry.

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