Product Description: For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, “Rilke’s best contemporary translator” (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke’s major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke’s German poetry ever to be published in English—is the culmination of this effort...read more

Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and internationally renowned Bruno Schulz, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a literary culture rightly considered one of the most important and influential of our time. These writers are branded by the political realities of their country — creating literature out of the brutality of the World War II, under the numbing and inhibiting Communist reign, and finally within a free society, but one freighted with the weight of its history.

Product Description: Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection of essays, Adam Zagajewski continues his efforts to reclaim for art not just the terms but the scanted spiritual dimension of modern human existence that they stake out...read more

The second collection of autobiographical and literary writing by one of Poland's greatest contemporary poets features a Job-like letter to God and a series of short philosophical essays, among other writings. By the author of Solidarity, Solitude. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This brilliant memoir is Adam Zagajewski's recollection of 1960s and 1970s communist Poland, where he was a fledgling writer, student of philosophy, and vocal dissident at the university in Krakow, Poland's most beautiful and ancient city.

Presents a collection of poems dealing with freedom, fate, history, genius, knowledge, art, consciousness, betrayal, mortality, evil, and politics.

A poet describes coming of age in Communist Poland while the Party is losing power and the opposition grows in strength.

The third of the Polish poet's collections to appear in English offers delicate, meditative investigations into the mysteries hiding in life's experiences, in nature, in art, and in the pulsations of cities. (view table of contents)

Poems deal with freedom, fate, history, genius, knowledge, art, consciousness, betrayal, mortality, evil, and politics

Product Description: Book by Zagajewski, Adam, Vallee, Lillian

Product Description: A collection of poems by one who is widely regarded as the leading Polish poet of his generation and the first to confront the realities of a one-party state and the road to exile. Now living in Paris, this is Zagajewski's first volume of poetry to be published in the West.