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Though best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), and Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945) also wrote some of the most original prose of this century. It is this prose-remarkable for its cross-cultural complexity and interdisciplinary richness-that concerns Bozena Shallcross in Through the Poet's Eye. The travels undertaken by these East European poets, who each journeyed to the West under different circumstances, give Shallcross her point of departure as she explores.