Polish poetry

Book Review: The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert — Mr Cogito’s Insomnia

June 25, 2025
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How should artists live under autocracy? A Cold War Polish poet doesn’t have good answers, but offers chilling advice.

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Arts Remembrance: Polish Poet and Dramatist Tadeusz Różewicz — The Prophet of the Partial, the Herald of the Unfinished

May 22, 2014
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Tadeusz Różewicz’s best poems are blunt hammer strokes that pound at the impossibility of crafting poetry true to the sins of history.

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Book Review: The Print-Pantheist — Cyprian Norwid’s “Poems”

February 21, 2012
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In light of the many translations of Cyprian Norwid’s verse into English, Danuta Borchardt thought carefully about what she was going to focus on.

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