You can find the text of the poem here - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-22-bk-26148-story.html Translation by John & Bogdana Carpenter. From th...
Polish Poetry Unites is a new video series for anyone interested in literature, history and reading. In each episode Edward Hirsch, a distinguished American poe...
"But the word I gave is stuck in my throat"-Zbigniew Herbert...
This installment of Poetry & Play: Enjoy Godfrey Simmons, Jr. reading "Elegy of Fortinbras" by Zbigniew Herbert. Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet, playwrigh...
to Laika So first the faithful dog will go and after it a pig or ass through the black grass will beat a track along it will the first man steal who with ...
When my older brother came back from war he had on his forehead a little silver star and under the star an abyss a splinter of shrapnel hit him at Verdu...
Inadvertently I passed the border of her teeth and swallowed her agile tongue. It lives inside me now, like a Japanese fish. It brushes against my heart and my ...
Over a delicate arch-- an eyebrow of stone-- on the unruffled forehead of a wall in joyful and open windows where there are faces instead of geraniums where ...
To the memory of my mother And now she has over her head brown clouds of roots a slim lily of salt on the temples beads of sand while she sails on the bottom o...