I n his lecture for the 1980 Nobel Prize in literature, the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) referred to his work as “a quest for reality.” Miłosz’s life was one long defense of ...

The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski’s great poem “To Go to Lvov” has a special importance for many young poets in different languages. That poem weaves the historical and the personal, ...

The Polish poet, a Nobel Prize winner in 1996, died Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. Szymborska was an ironist who deployed whimsy and a light touch, even when exploring weighty themes.

ANOTHER BEAUTY By Adam Zagajewski Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 221 pages, $23 Poland is perhaps the most devastated country of modern Europe, victimized a… ...

An obituary in the Aug. 15 paper was unclear; Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz's book "The Captive Mind" was published in English in 1953. His poetry was not translated to English until 1973. (Published ...

Since winning the Nobel Prize in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz has worked his way into American literary consciousness more than any other Polish writer. Although his reputation rests primarily on his ...

Second Space New Poems Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass Ecco: 102 pp., $23.95 A poet who gave over but never gave up - Los Angeles Times ...

One of Poland’s greatest poets, Adam Zagajewski, who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world’s sense of shock and loss after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, has died in Krakow.

Polish poet and playw right Tadeusz Różewicz, who was a member of the resistance during Germany’s occupation of Poland in World War II, has died, according to reports in the Polish press. He ...

One of Poland’s greatest poets, Adam Zagajewski, who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world’s sense of shock and loss after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, has died in Krakow.