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1	Canvas more books like this by Adam Zagajewski, Benjamin Ivry (Translator), Renata Gorczynski (Translator) add to wishlist The poems in this book cite instants of contemplation, crucial if unremarkable moments in the lives of the poet's heroes - Schubert, Simone Weil, Mozart and Bruckner - and in his own experience. The minutiae of daily life are pitted against the more sinister moments of politics and history. Adam Zagajewski is the author of "Tremor". see all copies from $2.79! new only from $2.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland, 1918-1939 more books like this by Bogdana Carpenter add to wishlist see all copies from $2.08! new only from $14.50! \| first editions
3	My Century more books like this by Aleksander Wat, Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by) add to wishlist The author recalls his involvement with Communism as editor of an influential literary review in pre-war Poland, the magazine's banning and his first imprisonment. He describes his disenchantment with Communism and his flight east with his family at the outbreak of World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	They Came to See a Poet: Selected Poems more books like this by Tadeusz Rozewicz, Adam Czerniawski (Editor) add to wishlist Tadeusz Rozewicz is one of the outstanding figures in the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. 'What I produced is poetry for the horror-stricken. For those abandoned to butchery. For survivors.' Distrusting myths and archetypes, and rejecting traditional aesthetic values which ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $14.94! \| SVS
5	View with a grain of sand : selected poems more books like this by Wislawa Szymborska add to wishlist This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition. She is one of a generation of Polish poets which witnessed the years of Soviet oppression and spoke for the feelings of the Polish people. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $13.60! \| first editions
6	Postwar Polish Poetry more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, Czeslaw Milosz (Editor) add to wishlist This expanded edition of "Postwar Polish Poetry" (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.41! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Laments more books like this by Jan Kochanowski, Seamus Heaney, Stanislaw Baraczak add to wishlist Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is acknowledged to be Poland's greatest poet, and this work represents the height of his achievement. The poems it contains, incorporating outspokenness and breach of decorum, are an impassioned but controlled expression of grief over the death of his daughter Orszula. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule OSI: Spoiling Cannibals Fun more books like this by Stanislaw Baranczak (Editor), Clare Cavanagh (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $10.12! new only from $14.82! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Provinces more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz add to wishlist "Provinces", Czeslaw Milosz's first book of poems since "The Collected Poems" (Penguin, 1988), continues his investigations into the urgent themes that have absorbed his work from the beginning. These poems are about what it is to be human in a world of provinces, shifting borders, conflict and crisis. From the perspective of old age - he is now ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $93.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Treasury of Polish Love Poems more books like this by Miroslaw Lipinski (Editor) add to wishlist The work of more than 30 of Poland's finest poets, including Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska as well as Adam Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krazinski and Boleslaw Lesmian, appears in this bilingual compilation. see all copies from $4.52! new only from $4.53! \| SVS
11	Bells in Winter more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Lillian Vallee (Translator) add to wishlist A collection of introspective poems that examine self, society, history, and the tormenting question of humankind's place in a world without a personal God. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $75.75! \| first editions
12	Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule: Spoiling Cannibals' Fun more books like this by Stanislaw Baranczak (Translator), Clare Cavanagh (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $20.55! new only from $42.00! \| first editions
13	Contemporary Polish Poetry, 1925-1975 more books like this by Madeline Levine add to wishlist see all copies from $17.85! first editions
14	The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection = Z Nowej Polskiej Poezji: Zbior W Dwoch Jezykach more books like this by Paul Vangelisti (Editor), Milne Holton (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
15	Polish Poetry from the Soviet Gulags: Recovering a Lost Literature more books like this by Halina Ablamowicz (Editor) add to wishlist This work presents a translation of 25 poems that chronicle a largely unexamined period of Polish history. For fifty years the history of forced deportations of Poles to the Soviet work camps was a taboo subject in Poland. During the post-war communist era Poles were forbidden to discuss or publish any materials relating to the unlawful ... see all copies from $72.94! new only from $72.94!
16 view cover	Five Centuries of Polish Poetry, 1450-1970, more books like this by Jerzy Peterkiewicz add to wishlist This anthology covers the gamut of Polish literary history. see all copies from $35.95! new only from $86.11!
17	Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology more books like this by Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist see all copies from $18.50! first editions
18	Burning Forest more books like this by Adam Czeriawski, Adam Czerniawski (Editor) add to wishlist An anthology of modern Polish poetry featuring large selections of poems by, as well as biographies and photographs of, seventeen major poets who have made their mark during the past ten years. see all copies from $12.58!
19 view cover	Bearing the Unbearable more books like this by Frieda W Aaron add to wishlist This book is a pioneering study of Yiddish and Polish-Jewish concentration camp and ghetto poetry. It reveals the impact of the immediacy of experience as a formative influence on perception, response, and literary imagination, arguing that literature that is contemporaneous with unfolding events offers perceptions different from those presented ... see all copies from $21.59! signed copies
20	Humps & Wings: A Selection of Polish Poetry Since '68 more books like this by Stanislaw Baranczak, Bogusaw Rostworowski, Tadeusz Nyczek add to wishlist see all copies from $6.36! first editions
21	Mature Laurel: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry more books like this by Adam Czerniawski add to wishlist see all copies from $5.36!
22 view cover	Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Polish Women's Poetry (1981-1995) more books like this by Regina Grol add to wishlist "As the award of the Nobel Prize to Wislawa Szymborska has shown, Polish women's poetry constitutes a powerful body of literature, which deserves to better known in the West. This judiciously chosen and excellently translated anthology illustrates the range of that poetry, its stylistic variety and interest." ? Eva Hoffman A bilingual edition. see all copies from $11.79! new only from $60.18!
23	The New Polish Poetry more books like this by Milne Holton (Editor), Paul Vangelisti (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.38!
24	Ariadne's Thread: Polish Women Poets more books like this by Susan Bassnett add to wishlist see all copies from $7.60!
25	Piesn Niepodlega =: The Invincible Song: A Clandestine Anthology more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz (Editor), Czesaw Miosz add to wishlist see all copies from $89.00!

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