The definitive collection in English of the poetry of the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature includes the one hundred poems of her phenomenally popular View with a Grain of Sand and sixty-four newly translated selections. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A poignant series of poems by one of the finest sixteenth-century Polish poets expresses the personal grief of the poet over the death of his young daughter and his growing sense of religious doubt. Reprint.

A poignant, lovingly rendered collection of intimate poems by a distinguished sixteenth-century Polish poet shares his grief, religious doubt, and struggle to cope with the death of his young daughter.

Product Description: What has really been happening in Eastern Europe in the 1980s? Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, reveals that the answer lies not with the party secretaries but with artists and poets. He turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed in their attempts to transform the Eastern European into "homo sovieticus"...read more

Product Description: The past thirty years have witnessed some of the most traumatic and inspiring moments in Polish history. This turbulent period has also been a time of unprecedented achievement in all forms of Polish poetry--lyric, religious, political, meditative...read more

Product Description: The leading Polish poet still residing in his native land, Zbigniew Herbert as not been the subject of a book-length study in English until now. Stanislaw Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland only in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-cultural context for Herbert while describing and analyzing the texts and themes of his poems...read more