Ryszard Kapuscinski is considered among the most important\njournalists of the 20th century, with several of his titles,\nincluding The Soccer War, The Shah of Shahs,\n_Imperium_ and The Shadow of the Sun considered\npart of the modern canon. His reportages bore the marks of the\nhighest literary craftsmanship characterized by sophisticated\nnarrative technique, psychological portraits of characters, a\nwealth of stylization, metaphor and unusual imagery that serves as\nmeans of interpreting the perceived world. He approached foreign\ncountries first through literature, spending months reading before\neach trip. He was frequently mentioned as a favourite to win the\nNobel Prize for Literature, though remained overlooked when he died\nin January, 2007. What was not known in the English speaking world,\nhowever, was the Ryszard Kapuscinski was also a poet. Ecce Homo\nbrings together the best of the poems from his two previously\npublished collections, offering them in English in book form for\nthe first time. Kapuscinskis is a thoughtful, philosophic verse,\noften aphoristic in tone and structure, and as one would expect,\nengaged politically, morally and viscerally with the world around\nhim.

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