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The Art of Losing: Polish Poetry and Translation

Clare Cavanagh
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Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 7:00pm
CMU 120

How do we explain the remarkable international prestige achieved by Polish poetry in the last half-century? Why the Russian Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky learned Polish in order to read what he called “the most extraordinary poetry” of the twentieth century in the original? What would American poets and critics do without Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska – both Nobel Prize Winners - Adam Zagajewski and Zbigniew Herbert?


