This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, "String of Light," in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, "Epilogue Of the Storm." "Collected Poems: 1956-1998," as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's "SSelected Poems," is "bound for a ...
Blessed is the nation that in the course of a century could give the world two poets of Czeslaw Milosz's and Zbigniew Herbert's scope. Doubly blessed is the English-reader, for in this volume he gets Zbigniew Herbert's work rendered by Czeslaw Milosz: like the poor, or better yet like nature herself, Polish genius takes care of its own. This ...
The 60 lyrics and prose poems here see their first publication in English in this posthumous collection. Written over the course of 40 years, from 1950 to 1990, the poems return to many of Herbert's common concerns: the dead, memory, and myth.
This is the long-awaited translation of the volume Pan Cogito (Warsaw, 1974), now published in English translation as a full sequence of 40 poems for the first time. Writing of earlier volumes, the New Yorker said that `Herbert is one of the finest and most original writers of this century...a stubbornly idiosyncratic poet of isolation, ...
Ten lyrical and passionate essays on the culture, art, and history of Western Europe written from the perspective of the post-Stalinist thaw of the 1960s.
Zbigniew Herbert, one of the most notable poets living in Europe, was born in Poland in 1924, and fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis.
The Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert travelled to the Netherlands to write these historical forays into the lives, minds and art of the Dutch in the 17th century. The 16 prose pieces that make up the book reveal the author's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humour and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd ...
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(Poetry) Wiman, Christian (Editor) [Cover Art By Ward Schumaker] [Jacques Reda, Zbigniew Herbert, Durs Grunbein, Daisy Fried,...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Poetry Foundation, Chicago
Date Published: 2007
Description: Ex-Library. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 9"], last numbered page is 336 [first numbered page is 263] [plus ads at the rear]. Ex-library copy [labels/markings to the cover, else VG+/Near Fine copy with tight, clean interior]. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine, NY
Date Published: 1998
Description: Roberts, Michael (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. Double Issue. Publishers Printed faux half cover. 168pp. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. From the collection of Claude Smith, illustrator for the New Yorker. This issue includes From the End by Herbert, Zbigniew; Who Are You? by Dorrie, Doris; and Passing the Morning Under the Serenissima by Wright, Charles. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine, NY
Date Published: 1992
Description: Connor, Russell (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. 146pp. Has light shelfwear. Mailing label on front cover. From the collection of Claude Smith, illustrator for the New Yorker. This issue includes Prayer Of The Old Men by Herbert, Zbigniew; For The Lost Adolescent by Digges, Deborah; One Woman Blues Revival by Lombreglia, Ralph; and Night Travellers by McGrath, Campbell. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine, NY
Date Published: 1991
Description: O'Brien, John (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. 84pp. Has light shelfwear. From the collection of Claude Smith, illustrator for the New Yorker. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. This issue includes Mr. Cogito Looks at a Deceased Friend by Herbert, Zbigniew; Stone Village by Merwin, W. S.; and Nymph & Faun by Templeton, Edith. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine, NY
Date Published: 1992
Description: Connor, Russell (cover art) Very Good- No Jacket. 8" x 11. 146pp. Mailing label on front cover. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. This issue includes Prayer Of The Old Men by Herbert, Zbigniew; For The Lost Adolescent by Digges, Deborah; One Woman Blues Revival by Lombreglia, Ralph; and Night Travellers by McGrath, Campbell. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine, NY
Date Published: 1992
Description: Connor, Russell (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. 146pp. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. This issue includes Prayer Of The Old Men by Herbert, Zbigniew; For The Lost Adolescent by Digges, Deborah; One Woman Blues Revival by Lombreglia, Ralph; and Night Travellers by McGrath, Campbell. read more
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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, London, UK
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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