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UNDEFEATED

Polansky's poems immediately strike like a fist in the stomach, whether they are personal or committed and "angry". Wide is the variety of human experiences described, either lived personally or seen by the eyes of a man who moves with passion in his body and spirit, and fights for things to get better. Words can change the world, especially when they are a written reflection of an action accomplished or of a voice screamed against the world's injustices. This is Polansky's poetry: the mirror of a man who has never let the events glide on him, who on the contrary has let himself be touched and wounded by his own and other people's life. As an old boxer, Polansky always fights, and still undefeated he resists the offensive of an unjust society, for he knows the match is never over and nothing is lost, neither for himself nor for the people he supports and defends.

The volume is part of the projects of Casa della Poesia. It includes more than 100 poems Paul has written from 1994 to the Old Madrid collection written in 2008, all translated in Italian as well. .

'Underlying the Word/Action of these poems, and this is perhaps the heart of the authenticity of Paul Polansky's work, the reader is going to enter a world that he or she like most of us have never really known. And we're going to be educated, we're going really learn some things about different peoples, and in ways that will be starkly and strikingly unforgettable, manifested by a world traveler who graduated from being a picker-of-fights in small town Middle-West America, to a boxer in fact, only to find his way to Europe in 1963 and, in many books of poems, continue The Good Fight with the best weapon in hand.' Jack Hirschman .