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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Baranczak, Stanislaw; Ryszard Krynicki; Jacek Bierezin; Adam Zagajewski; Jerzy Ficowski; Zbigniew Herbert; Wiktor Woroszylski...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Poets' and Painters' Press
Date Published: 1980
Description: Good+ 8vo 7.75-9.75'' tall. Paperback with dust jacket. Light general wear. Introduction and foreword have pen underlining. 92 pages. read more
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(Artes) [Edited By Gunnar Harding And Bengt Jangfeldt] [Kenzaburo Oe, Susan Sontag, Stanislaw Baranczak, Robert Bly, Johan H....
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Ecco Press and Natur Och Kultur [1995]
Date Published: 1995
Description: Very Good. First edition. Magazine. Review copy with review slip laid in. Oversize [about 7" x 9"] format, 141 pages [plus ads], illustrated, with a CD [compact disc] of Johan Helmich Roman included in a pocket inside the rear cover [as issued]. VG copy [creasing to the upper portion of the book] [with CD]. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mr. Cogito Press
Date Published: 1978
Description: 12mo. Stapled binding. Book is in near fine condition; there are a few small stress creases along staples at binding. Translated from the Polish by Frank Kujawinski; illustrated with photographs taken of a metal sculpture by Carl Meyer. 24 pp. read more
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