Postwar Polish Poetry: Third Expanded Edition [Paperback]

Czeslaw Milosz (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 8, 1983

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 of new schools and talents. The victory of Solidarity in August 1980 once again opened new vistas for a short time; the coup of December closed that chapter. It is too early yet to predict the impact these events will have on the future of Polish poetry.

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The Humane Conditions by Stanislaw Baranczak
If Porcelain, Then Only The Kind by Stanislaw Baranczak
If You Have To Scream, Please Do It Quietly by Stanislaw Baranczak
Never Really by Stanislaw Baranczak
Those Men, So Powerful by Stanislaw Baranczak
And Even, Even If They Take Away The Stove by Miron Bialoszewski
A Ballad Of Going Down To The Store by Miron Bialoszewski
Garwolin - A Town For Ever by Miron Bialoszewski
My Jacobean Fatigues by Miron Bialoszewski
Self-portrait As Felt by Miron Bialoszewski
A Ballad Of The Bayonet by Ernest Bryll
Leviathan by Ernest Bryll
Nike by Ernest Bryll
A Prayer by Bogdan Czaykowski
A Revolt In Verse by Bogdan Czaykowski
The Marriage: Two Monologues by Witold Gombrowicz
The Breasts Of The Queen Are Turned Out Of Wood by Stanislaw Grochowiak
Clean Men by Stanislaw Grochowiak
Painting by Stanislaw Grochowiak
A Short Fairy Tale by Stanislaw Grochowiak
To A Lady by Stanislaw Grochowiak
The Village Cinema by Stanislaw Grochowiak
When Nothing Remains by Stanislaw Grochowiak
A Green Lowland Of Pianos by Jerzy Harasymowicz
Leda And The Swan by Jerzy Harasymowicz
Sister by Jerzy Harasymowicz
The Thistle by Jerzy Harasymowicz
Apollo And Marsyas by Zbigniew Herbert
At The Gate Of The Valley by Zbigniew Herbert
Elegy Of Fortinbras by Zbigniew Herbert
The Emperor's Dream by Zbigniew Herbert
The End Of A Dynasty by Zbigniew Herbert
The Envoy Of Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert
The Fathers Of A Star by Zbigniew Herbert
From Mythology by Zbigniew Herbert
Jonah by Zbigniew Herbert
A Naked Town by Zbigniew Herbert
Our Fear by Zbigniew Herbert
The Pebble by Zbigniew Herbert
The Rain by Zbigniew Herbert
The Return Of The Proconsul by Zbigniew Herbert
Revelation by Zbigniew Herbert
Study Of The Object by Zbigniew Herbert
The Tongue by Zbigniew Herbert
A Wooden Die by Zbigniew Herbert
Quentin Matsys by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Beyond Time by Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Man by Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Remembrance by Mieczyslaw Jastrun
A Woman Who Suddenly Entered The Room by Mieczyslaw Jastrun
A Lesson Of Silence by Tymoteusz Karpowicz
Love by Tymoteusz Karpowicz
The Pencil's Dream by Tymoteusz Karpowicz
Turns by Tymoteusz Karpowicz
Alarum by Urszula Koziol
Advice by Czeslaw Milosz
Bobo's Metamorphosis: 5 by Czeslaw Milosz
Bobo's Metamorphosis: 7 by Czeslaw Milosz
Bobo's Metamorphosis: 8 by Czeslaw Milosz
Dedication by Czeslaw Milosz
A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto by Czeslaw Milosz
A Song On The End Of The World by Czeslaw Milosz
Throughout Our Lands: 11 by Czeslaw Milosz
Throughout Our Lands: 14 by Czeslaw Milosz
Throughout Our Lands: 3 by Czeslaw Milosz
Throughout Our Lands: 7 by Czeslaw Milosz
Throughout Our Lands: 8 by Czeslaw Milosz
Throughout Our Lands: 9 by Czeslaw Milosz
I Leave Myself by Tadeusz Nowak
Mother by Julian Przybos
On The Shore by Julian Przybos
Albumen by Tadeusz Rozewicz
The Apple by Tadeusz Rozewicz
The Deposition Of The Burden by Tadeusz Rozewicz
In The Middle Of Life by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Leave Us Alone by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Playing Horses by Tadeusz Rozewicz
A Sketch For A Modern Love Poem by Tadeusz Rozewicz
To The Heart by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Transformations by Tadeusz Rozewicz
A Voice by Tadeusz Rozewicz
The Wall by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Spinoza Was A Bee by Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz
Defence Of The Moon by Antoni Slonimski
Hamletism by Antoni Slonimski
To The Germans by Antoni Slonimski
The Bridge by Leopold Staff
Foundations by Leopold Staff
Three Towns by Leopold Staff
Building The Barricade: A Woman Said To Her Neighbor by Anna Swir
Building The Barricade: Building The Barricade by Anna Swir
Building The Barricade: He Steals Furs by Anna Swir
Building The Barricade: I've Been Waiting These Thirty Years by Anna Swir
Building The Barricade: It Smashes Barricades by Anna Swir
Building The Barricade: Twenty Of My Sons by Anna Swir
Building The Barricade: Two Hunchbacks by Anna Swir
I Am Panting by Anna Swir
I Knocked My Head Against The Wall by Anna Swir
Kill Me by Anna Swir
The Old Woman by Anna Swir
The Same Inside by Anna Swir
The Second Madrigal by Anna Swir
She Does Not Remember by Anna Swir
Songs Of Plenitude by Anna Swir
A Woman Talks To Her Thigh by Anna Swir
Autotomy by Wislawa Szymborska
Every Case by Wislawa Szymborska
A Great Number by Wislawa Szymborska
I Am Too Near by Wislawa Szymborska
The Joy Of Writing by Wislawa Szymborska
Laughter by Wislawa Szymborska
Letters Of The Dead by Wislawa Szymborska
Utopia by Wislawa Szymborska
Arithmetic by Aleksander Wat
Before Breughel The Elder by Aleksander Wat
Disgusted By Everything Alive I Withdrew Into The by Aleksander Wat
A Flamingo's Dream by Aleksander Wat
If The Word 'exists' by Aleksander Wat
Notes To The Books Of The Old Testament; 1 Kings, 10 by Aleksander Wat
Notes Written In Obory, Sels. by Aleksander Wat
Persian Palables, Sels. by Aleksander Wat
To Be A Mouse by Aleksander Wat
An Attempt by Adam Wazyk
A Pre-columbian Sculpture by Adam Wazyk
A Search by Adam Wazyk
Sketch For A Memoir by Adam Wazyk
A Word To Orphists by Kazimierz Wierzynski
Freedom by Adam Zagajewski
I Talked To A Frenchman by Adam Zagajewski
Verses About Poland by Adam Zagajewski
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Language Notes

Text: English, Polish (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; Expanded edition (July 8, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520044762
• ISBN-13: 978-0520044760
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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