Postwar Polish Poetry An Anthology

This expanded edition of Postwar Polish Poetry (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion of new schools and talents. The victory of Solidarity in August 1980 once again opened new vistas for a short time; the coup of December closed that chapter. It is too early yet to predict the impact these events will have on the future of Polish poetry.

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was born in Lithuania and was Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Poets in this Volume

Leopold Staff

Antoni Slonimski

Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz

Kazimierz Wierzynski

Aleksander Wat

Julian Przybos

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Witold Gombrowicz

Adam Wazyk

Anna Swirszczynska

Czeslaw Milosz (poems: Dedication; A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto; A Song on the End of the World; From 'Throughout Our Lands'; Advice; From 'Bobo's Metamorphosis')

Tadeusz Rozewicz

Tymoteusz Karpowicz

Miron Bialoszewski

Wislawa Szymborska

Zbigniew Herbert

Tadeusz Nowak

Bogdan Czaykowski

Jerzy Harasymowicz

Stanislaw Grochowiak

Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz

Ernest Bryll

Urszula Koziol

Stanislaw Baranczak

Adam Zagajewski