Clare Cavanagh
1) True life
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A stunning, intimate collection by Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021), "the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time" (Mary Oliver)"--
2) Asymmetry
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dr. John Yelenic was a successful dentist in a small Pennsylvania town. When he met Michele Kamler, he thought he'd finally found the woman of his dreams. She was beautiful, intelligent, and seemed to want all the same things out of life as he did.
Michele married Yelenic in 1997. But, by 2002, the relationship fell apart...and what followed was a bitter, three-year-long battle in which Michele made demands for Yelenic's money and even accused him-falsely,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A selection of short prose pieces by the Polish poet incorporates the author's reflections on an eclectic array of books, ranging from titles on cooking, yoga, gardening, and home repair to volumes on opera and world literature.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"One of Poland's most important poets, Adam Zagajewski left his childhood home in Gliwice to study philosophy in the ancient city of Krakow. Another Beauty is the retelling of this stage in the development of his poetic sensibility, a period of double liberation: first from the official lies and imposed political collectivism of the regime and later from the imposed intellectual collectivism of the opposition. It is also the story of how he strayed...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One of the greatest poets of postwar Poland, Krynicki was born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp in Austria, where his parents, Polish peasants from Ukraine, served as slave laborers. Act of Birth marked the emergence of a major voice--with Adam Zagajewski and Stanislaw Baranczak--in Poland's "Generation of '68" or "New Wave" of Polish poetry. Political and poetic rebellion converged for these poets, and the regime took notice. During the 1970s and '80s,...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 1514
Publisher
A New Directions Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this witty "how-to" guide, Wisława Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave-anonymously-for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life. She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize-winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. 'If you want the world in a nutshell,' a Polish critic remarks, 'try Szymborska.' But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew. Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"Nobel laureate Szymborska's gorgeous posthumous collection . . . includes more than 250 poems . . . This is a brilliant and important collection."—Booklist (starred review)
One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems...
One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems...
