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A Case of Poetic Transplant: A Cuban Song in “Kwiaty polskie”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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Slavic Review , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987 , pp. 115 - 117
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1987

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References

I am grateful to an anonymous referee of the Slavic Review for many helpful remarks that improved both the content and the form of this note.

1. Tuwim, Julian, Kwiaty polskie (Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1955 Google Scholar; Guillén, Nicolas, Antologia mayor (Havana: Bolsilibros Union, 1964 Google Scholar.

2. Compare information on Kwiaty polskie in Wyka, Kazimierz, “Bukiet z całej epoki,” in Rzecz wyobraźni (Warsaw)Google Scholar; Bulakhovs'ka, I. L., Poeziia luliana Tuvima (Kiev: Akademiia Nauk Ukrains'koiRSR, 1960)Google Scholar; and Gtowiński, Michał, Poetyka Tuwima a polska tradycja literacka (Warsaw: PIW, 1962 Google Scholar.

3. Tuwim, Kwiaty polskie, p. 126. Since this poem has not been translated into English, the following is my rendition of the Polish phrases in the fragment: Another island — only blackfolk/The girls, beating their thighs, sing: “Wamba negro mbamba/… . yambambe “/ And then nothingbut boredom—water—boredom/ The days are floating on boredom and water/ Ay whisky…./yambambe!

4. Compare Stradecki, Janusz, Julian Tuwim. Twórczość (Warsaw: PIW, 1959 Google Scholar, with idem, O Julianie Tuwimie, Poradnik Bibliograficzny (Warsaw: PIW, 1969).