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Description
by Radosław Wiśniewski, translated by Anna Błasiak
Publication date: November 2025
Psalm to Saint Sabina is a book-length poem in 88 stanzas which came out in Poland in several editions. It tells a story of Sabina Szopf, the protagonist’s (and the poet’s) great-grandmother and her turbulent life. Sabina was born in the Tsarist Russia in the year 1900, lived under the Soviet and German occupations and ended up settling after WW2 in the town of Brzeg in Silesia in Poland, previously a German town of Brieg. This book-length poem is a kind of personal and private process of sanctification of the protagonist’s great-grandmother, written in the language on one hand referencing Bible, psalms and litanies, and on the other hand simple and colloquial, tinged with Sabina’s Eastern Borderlands linguistic quirks.