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Tag Archives: Polish
Zagajewski on Rilke
Out recently: the paperback edition of Edward Snow’s translations of Rilke, with Adam Zagajewski’s capacious introduction. From which: Maybe it’s more interesting to see Rilke’s work as not as virginal, not as ethereal, as it seems to many readers. After all, like the majority of literary modernists, he is an antimodern; one of the main [...]
Writers: Adam Zagajewski
Two Poets from Adam Zagajewski: Tomasz Rozycki and Marie Lundquist
On Monday, March 28, Tomasz Różycki and Marie Lundquist will read with Adam Zagajewski in the Tenth Muse Series at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Here is a poem from each. CINNAMON AND CLOVES by Tomasz Różycki, translated by Mira Rosenthal I’m lying here with a hole in my head through which the [...]
Writers: Marie Lundquist, Tomasz Różycki
Milosz celebrations all over
The centenary of the birth of Czeslaw Milosz has festivities busting out all over, with a bumper crop of marvelous participants. In New York, a tribute at the 92nd Street Y on March 21 will include Little Star‘s dynamic duo, Adam Zagajewski and his wonderful translator Clare Cavanagh (whose Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, [...]
Writers: Adam Zagajewski, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert
Rozewicz Comes to America, II
Herewith our second of two samplings of the work of Tadeusz Różewicz, the last in his mighty generation of Polish poets to be fully heard in America. These three little poems find our poet in a characteristically laconic mode. The translator is Joanna Trzeciak. Click here for our first sample, a fantasia on who might [...]
Writers: Tadeusz Rozewicz
Rozewicz Comes to America, I
Tadeusz Różewicz is the last of the great run of Polish poets that picked up where Polish independence left off to become fully audible in English. Norton publishes at the end of this month an ample survey of his career, Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz, translated by Joanna Trzeciak. Little Star brings you [...]
Writers: Tadeusz Rozewicz
“An Interview with Atropos,” by Wislawa Szymborska
This fall’s bonanza of Polish literature continues with new translations of the Vermeer of modern poetry, Wislawa Szymborska. Szymborska was born in 1923 in Prowent, Poland. Five collections of her poems have been published in English. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. This poem is translated by Clare Cavanagh and the great [...]
Writers: Wislawa Szymborska
“The Blood of Thought”: Zbigniew Herbert on Hamlet, first time in English
The mad Ophelia and the mock-mad Hamlet expressed the poet’s many-sided rebellion against the world’s ordinariness. For there is a kind of normality that is unacceptable, a base, comfortable normality that submits to reality, forgets easily. It is universal because some inner law of economics doesn’t allow us to experience reality to the full, to [...]
Writers: Zbigniew Herbert
Dear Reader, We bring you A Thousand Peaceful Cities, by Jerzy Pilch
Little Star was thrilled to encounter A Thousand Peaceful Cities, a mind-bending romp by Polish journalist and novelist Jerzy Pilch, miraculously translated by David Frick and published this month by Open Letter. We here with pleasure offer a few choice morsels (with editorial emendations by ourselves). IN WHICH our hero’s father’s drinking companion, Mr. Traba, [...]
Writers: Jerzy Pilch