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.