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“Herbert is not just a Baedeker, he is our sunstruck brother; capable of an ecstatic phrase one moment, a sardonic one the next.” Los Angeles Times
“Herbert is not just a Baedeker, he is our sunstruck brother; capable of an ecstatic phrase one moment, a sardonic one the next.” Los Angeles Times
From his poetry we can learn how deeply history and the individual interact, how cruelly mass culture threatens the frail psychological construct of the self, and how deeply poetry can penetrate the g...
Adam Zagajewski is a rapturous skeptic, an ecstatic ironist who, in moments of great attentivesness, fully divines, absorbs, and accepts the word, yet also teaches us to question everythink about it. ...
One of Poland’s most important poets, Adam Zagajewski left his childhood home in Gliwice to study philosophy in the ancient city of Krakow. Another Beauty is the eloquent retelling of this stage in th...
In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered...
Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wonder in...
The leading Polish poet still residing in his native land, Zbigniew Herbert has not been the subject of a book-length study in English until now. Stanislaw Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and trans...
A group of friends take up the challenge of roughing it in the mountains of South East Poland. Up against nature, they hope to break the monotony of their everyday lives and rediscover their childhood...