Often, Szymborska's poems re-create the fleeting instant when disbelief is in suspension and an act of the imagination can take place. – Dana Goodyear, Los Angeles Times

 

This important 2004 bilingual anthology of 24 young Polish poets.

 

 

 

This book is a profound immersion in Marie Curie’s character and times, and what arises poetically is brilliant, a remarkable and multifaceted portrait of her passionate and turbulent life. – Jan Conn

 

“Jacek Dehnel's slim bilingual anthology collects some of the most classically lucid poetry in Polish published in the past decade.”
– The Times Literary Supplement

 

 

 

For all her topical interest Hartwig is finally a poet of enduring consolation, measured reassurance and scenic clarity. – Publishers Weekly

 

This is the first time that a selection of the beloved Polish poet's work has been published with the original Polish and the English translation presented in parallel on facing pages.

 

Herbert himself is significant — like Frost and Auden, he’s a poet whose failure to win the Nobel Prize says more about the prize committee than about the writer. – David Orr, The New York Times Finally, the work of this powerful master of 20th-century literature is all in one place. – Publishers Weekly

 

Anna Kamienska, a brilliant but lesser-known peer of Milosz and Szymborska, discovers a capacity for gratitude in the face of immense loss. Yet another direct, unsentimental voice for transcendence in the wake of disaster.

 

Like his associates Baranczak, Krynicki, and Zagajewski, Julian Kornhauser is a major figure of the New Wave generation of Polish poets. This remarkable selection from his recent work brings this important Polish writer into English for the first time.

 

 

 

"There are few superlatives left for Milosz's work, but this enormous volume, with its portentous valedictory feel, will have reviewers firing up their thesauri nationwide." - Publishers Weekly

 

 

 

The startling juxtaposition of sensual and brutal histories, of human and animal flesh, of the experience of war and of writing is Rozewicz's great achievement throughout twenty volumes of poetry. – The Guardian

 

“Personal” for Rozycki means also transpersonal; the persona of his poetry holds the memory of an entire family or tribe, or perhaps even of society in general. And there's no mockery here. Rozycki's poetry is serious, a private response to the historic moment. Without a doubt, a vital new poet has emerged from the Polish language. – Adam Zagajewski

 

 

Szuber’s work is poised between the rigors of making poetry and life itself in all its messy glory, between the devastations of history and the quiet act of observing our place in it all.

Szuber’s poetry speaks to the hard part of the soul. - Zbigniew Herbert

 

 

 

 

Unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy – though it is a dark kind of joy – to read. She is a poet to live with. – Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World

 

A stunning addition to the literature of surrealism... – Whitney Chadwick, author of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement A prose poem in chapters, of haunting beauty… And the collages are something else: think Ernst and think past him. – Prof. Mary Ann Caws, CUNY Graduate Center, author of many books on Surrealism

 

Tkaczyszyn-Dycki is one of Poland’s most original and important younger poets. Trained by twin muses, Thanatos and Eros, his is a voice at once resonant of the long European tradition of elegy, rooted in regional (Ukrainian) folk traditions, and alive to contemporary Polish reality. Translated by "Found in Translation" Award winner Bill Johnston.

 

 

This collection finds the poet reflecting on place, language, and history. Especially moving are his tributes to writers, friends known in person or in books – people such as Milosz and Sebald, Brodsky and Blake – which intermingle naturally with portraits of family members and loved ones. Eternal Enemies is a luminous meeting of art and everyday life.