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Adam Zagajewski is the leading Polish poet of his generation. He was born in Lvov in 1945 and studied philosophy at Cracow’s Jagiellonian University. He lives in Paris and Houston. His previous books,...
Adam Zagajewski is the leading Polish poet of his generation. He was born in Lvov in 1945 and studied philosophy at Cracow’s Jagiellonian University. He lives in Paris and Houston. His previous books,...
Originally published in 1968, Jerzy Grotowski's groundbreaking book is now availible once again. As a record of Grotowski's theatrical experiments, this book is an invaluable resource to stduent and t...
Though best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), and Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945) also wrote some of the most original prose of this century. It is this prose-remarka...
Nowhere is the quickly changing face of Eastern Europe more apparent than in Poland. The Rough Guide keeps pace with Poland's changing political and economic climate with this fully updated edition. T...
This fine volume brings together two pieces by Polish journalist Krall. The first, never before available in English, is an eerie, semi-autobiographical novel detailing the narrator's relationship ove...
“Seldom has the muse of poetry spoken to anyone with such clarity and urgency,” wrote Joseph Brodsky, “as in Zagajewski’s case.” Without End draws from each of Adam Zagaj...
“Herbert is not just a Baedeker, he is our sunstruck brother; capable of an ecstatic phrase one moment, a sardonic one the next.” Los Angeles Times
From his poetry we can learn how deeply history and the individual interact, how cruelly mass culture threatens the frail psychological construct of the self, and how deeply poetry can penetrate the g...