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Magnetic Point: Selected Poems

By: Ryszard Krynicki

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Magnetic Point: Selected Poems

By: Ryszard Krynicki

With a splendid selection from a half century of marvelous poems, a major Polish poet appears in English at last One of Poland's greatest living poets—now in English at last—Ryszard Krynicki was born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp, the son of Polish slave laborers. His 1969 volume, Act of Birth, marked the emergence of a major voice in the "New Wave" of Polish poetry. In Krynicki's work, political and poetic rebellion converged during the 1970s and '80s, he was arrested on trumped-up charges and forbidden from publishing. But his poetry is hardly just political. From the early dissident poems to his recent haiku, Krynicki's lyrical work taps deep wells of linguistic acuity, mysticism, compression, and wit.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811225011

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9780811225014

Our Life Grows

By: Ryszard Krynicki

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Our Life Grows

By: Ryszard Krynicki

The first uncensored, English-language translation of a Polish dissident poet's brave act of witness in post-World-War-II Europe. The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry offering what Adam Michnik has called “a strange and beautiful marriage of Joseph Conrad's heroic ethics with a great metaphysical perspective.” Krynicki is the author of a body of work marked at once by the solitude of a poète maudit and solidarity with a hurt and manipulated community. Our Life Grows, published in Paris in 1978, was the first poetry collection to appear as Krynicki intended, beyond the reach of the Communist censorship that had crippled his earlier books. These poems, combining a biting wit and rigorously questioning mind with a surreal imagination, are a vital part of the story of postwar Europe.

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New York Review of Books

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168137160X

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9781681371603

Our Life Grows

By: Ryszard Krynicki

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New York Review of Books

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1681371618

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9781681371610

Magnetic Point: Selected Poems

By: Ryszard Krynicki

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Heban

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

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Heban

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

Collection of selected works of Ryszard Kapuscinski recounting the end of Africa's colonial rule, and the great social and political changes as seen through an ordinary African.

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8375521124

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9788375521122

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