Waiting for the Dog to Sleep

Poet, translator, scholar, Jerzy Ficowski is the author of Regions of the Great Heresy (W.W. Norton, 2003), a biography of Bruno Schulz, and A Reading of Ashes , a collection of poetry. In the stories that comprise Waiting for the Dog to Sleep , he weaves memory, religious ritual, daily life, and the magical, hinting at a sinister presence lurking in the distance - a trace of ruin or disintegration always present as the narrator repeatedly struggles to link some aspect of a past that has been annihilated with a present that is foreign and hostile.