Depicts a society where rank and money are everything and sex has become little more than a subject for endless gossip, a human frailty everyone is subject to, yet condemned for. Presents a striking portrait of a woman in fiction with Isabella Lecka, the daughter of an impoverished nobleman.
Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass. The poems will appear, for the first time, side by side with the Polish originals, in a book to delight new and old readers alike.
What has really been happening in Eastern Europe in the 1980s? Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, reveals that the answer lies not with the party secretaries but with artists and poets. He turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not ...
Jan Kochanowski is one of the great Polish poets of the sixteenth century. Because of its intimate and domestic nature, this poignant series of poems on the death of Kochanowski's young daughter was a radical and rebellious departure from the literary conventions of his day. But it is this same intimacy that now gives Laments a startling potency ...
The leading Polish poet still residing in his native land, Zbigniew Herbert as not been the subject of a book-length study in English until now. Stanislaw Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland only in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-cultural context for Herbert while describing and ...
Wislawa Szymborska is one of the greatest li ving European poets. Along with 100 poems from View with a G rain of Sand, this collection includes 64 newly translated p oems and her 1996 Nobel Prize acceptance address '
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