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Faces of Anxiety
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Selected Poems
A superb introduction to, and translations of, a major, yet still almost undiscovered, Polish poet of the 19th century.
Treny
"Renaissance artists and poets readily commemorated the lives of the great, but rarely mourned a child who could not even claim noble birth. Yet the sixteenth-century masterpiece ""Treny"" stems from the Polish poet Jan Kochanowski's intense grief over the death of his little daughter Orszula, 'a delightful, radiant, extraordinary child', who died before she was three. The laments stand as Kochanowski's crowning achievement, and the first Polish work to equal the great poems of western Europe. In a cycle by turn reflective, despairing, and finally hesitantly accepting, a father evokes the unfulfilled promise of a life tragically cut short. The work's disarming simplicity and enduring passion, supported by an intellectually impressive structure, are fully realized in translation by Adam Czerniawski, the distinguished contemporary Polish poet. The English translation is accompanied by the original Polish text, edited by Renaissance scholar Piotr Wilczek, and with a foreword by Donald Davie. This important edition will prove of value to scholars and teachers of Slavonic literature, and to all lovers of poetry."
Firing the Canon
A collection of essays predominantly concerned with modern poetry, with problems of translating poetry, and with the relationship between poetry and philosophy. There is also some material dealing with music, the visual arts and religious belief.
Faces of Anxiety
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The Mature Laurel
Traces the course of Polish poetry from Norwid to the New Wave, virtually the whole of this century.--Polish Heritage. "Informative and engaging...Composed of three distinctly structured sections. The first, the most ambitious...consists of two essays by Czerniawski that together attempt to provide a background for the rest of the contributions...In Part 2, seven English writers comment on a single Polish poem that is particularly meaningful to them. These are light but intriguing...The third section is composed of ten solid essays in literary criticism by English writers who know Polish poetry only in translation and by emigre Polish writers and scholars. The blend of interests and perspectives is particularly effective and fascinating. Recommended for the general reader of poetry, graduate and upper-division undergraduate levels."--Choice.
Selected Poems
Poets' Voices is an international series of books with audio CD's which present collections of poems by significant poets whose work is not available in existing publications. Their poems appear in the original language, together with an English translation on the facing page. With each book, whenever possible, there is a CD recording of the poet reading poems in the collection in the original language and when feasible, in the English translations. Poets' Voices will also feature monographs on key poets about whose lives, works, and influence little is currently available.Czerniawski writes distinctive, challenging, and engaging poems. Since the late seventies he has been a significant presence in Polish poetry. Influenced by his remarkable international and multicultural experiences. Czerniawski debates, enacts or meditates obliquely on puzzles and questions of perception, memory, and representation. A CD featuring readings of a selection of the poems in Polish and in English accompanies this book.
An Empty Room
An Empty Room is a selection from the post-war poetry of Leopold Staff (1878-1957), one of the fathers of modern Polish literature. It is drawn from his last three collections, Still Weather (1946), Osier (1954) and The Nine Muses (1958). In these pared-down poems Staff achieved a powerful simplicity of form quite unlike the elegant traditional verse of his earlier books.Tadeusz Rozewicz elegised Leopold Staff in his poem 'I knew the god of poetry'. He regards Staff as one of the few outstanding writers of our time because in these late poems he put truth above art. As the critic Ryszard Przybylski says: 'Staff abandoned Parnassian carving in order to express the simplest and most important ...
The Burning Forest
The Burning Forest is an anthology of modern Polish poets, from Norwid to Bronislaw Maj, translated by one of the world's leading Polish translators and featuring large selections of poems, biographies and photographs. It includes major poets such as Herbert, Rozewicz and Szymborska, wartime writer-heroes like Stroinski, and young dissidents who have made their mark during the past ten years. The book's title is from a line by Juliusz Slowacki: 'No time to mourn roses, when forests burn.'The book begins with Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), the great post-romantic poet, at first abused and neglected, but eventually recognised as the guiding spirit of modern Polish poetry. It then focuses on poetr...
