POLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

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A Bibliography / Guide







CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
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Zbigniew Machej (1958 - )
list bullet  2 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).


list bullet  3 Selections. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing (2001).
list bullet  7 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.
  "Oedipus and the Sphinx." Trans. Tadeusz Pióro. Brindin Press. Text in Polish and English.
list bullet  "Orchards in July." Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass. A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. New York: Harvest Books. 1998. 29.
  "Orchards in July." Trans. not identified. Inward Bound Poetry. 18 Dec. 2007.



Bogdan Madej (1934-2002)
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.



Bronisław Maj (1953 - )
generic item icon  2 Poems. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature (March 2004).


  2 Poems. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. Poetry Magazine 185.5 (Feb. 2005).
list bullet  2 Poems. Trans. Daniel Bourne. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP. 1993.
list bullet  3 Poems. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 7.2 (Summer 1999). Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
list bullet  3 Poems. A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. New York: Harvest Books. 1998.
list bullet  4 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).
  4 Poems. Trans. Katarzyna Kietlińska and David Malcolm. The Sarmatian Review 14.2 (April 1994).
list bullet  5 Poems. Trans. Adam Czerniawski. Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry. Ed. Michael March. New York: Penguin. 1990.
  5 Poems. Sisabianovenia. [Listed in the order in which they appear on the page.]
generic item icon  10 Poems. Cross-Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture 12(1993).
  11 Poems. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.
list bullet  14 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.
  "A Leaf." Trans. not identified. Poetry Society of America.
  "Seen Fleetingly, from a Train." Trans. not identified. Tumblr.



Tomasz Majeran (1971 - )
list bullet   "Łękawica, February 1993." Trans. Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000): 321.



Bartlomiej Majzel (1974 - )
list bullet  Several Poems. Altered State: The New Polish Poetry: A Parallel Text Anthology of Polish Poetry Written Over the Past 15 Years by Poets Under the Age of 45. Eds. Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Tormorden, UK: Arc Publications. 2003.
   "Scrumping." Trans. Piotr Szymor and Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).



Mieczysław Maliński (1923 - )
list bullet  Faith to Move Mountains: Reflections on the Gospels of the Lectionary A, B, C. Trans. Lucy Mazareski. New York: Crossroad. 1982.



Miłka Malzahn (1971 - )
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.



Jakobe Mansztajn (1982 - )
list bullet  Vienna High Life. Trans. Marek Kazmierski. London: OFF_Press. 2011.



Paweł Marcinkiewicz (1969 - )
  3 Poems. Trans. Piotr Florczyk. Molossus. [Listed in the order in which they appear on the page.]


list bullet  5 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.
list bullet  The Day He's Gone: Poems 1990-2013. Trans. Piotr Florczyk. New York: Spuyten Duyvil. 2014.



Ludmiła Marjańska (1923-2005)
list bullet  6 Poems. Trans. Regina Grol. Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry. Ed. Regina Grol. Austin, TX: Host Publications. 1996. Polish and English.



Jarosław Markiewicz (aka Jan Marty) (1942-2010)
list bullet  "A Little Battle Hymn." Trans. Daniel Bourne. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP. 1993. 305.



Agata Masłowska (? - )
list bullet  "Twiddling." Edinburgh Review. Special issue: "Made in Poland: New Writing from Poland." 121 (2007): 28-33.
list bullet  "The Vanishing Dance." The Flight of the Turtle. Ed. Alan Bissett and Carl MacDougall. Glasgow: Assocation for Scottish Literary Studies. 2011. 130-135.



Dorota Masłowska (1983 - )
list bullet  A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians. Trans. Lisa Goldman and Paul Sirett. London: Oberon. 2008.
list bullet  "Faraway, So Gross." Trans. Benjamin Paloff. In The Wall in my Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain. Ed. Words without Borders. Rochester, NY: Open Letter. 2009. 160-165.
  Snow White and Russian Red: excerpt. Trans. Benjamin Paloff. Words without Borders. Jan. 2005.
list bullet  Snow White and Russian Red. Trans. Benjamin Paloff. New York: Grove Press. 2005.
list bullet  White and Red. Trans. Benjamin Paloff. London: Atlantic Books. 2005.



Tomasz Matkowski (1952 - )
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.



Jadwiga Maurer (1932 - )
No English translations of her work appear to be available at this time.



Maciej Melecki (1969 - )
   2 Poems. Trans. Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006-Supplement).


list bullet  Several Poems. Altered State: The New Polish Poetry: A Parallel Text Anthology of Polish Poetry Written Over the Past 15 Years by Poets Under the Age of 45. Eds. Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Tormorden, UK: Arc Publications. 2003.
list bullet  "Roots." Trans. Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000): 240.
   "Summer, Getting Away from Yourself." Trans. Piotr Szymor and Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).



Zbigniew Mentzel (1951 - )
  All the Lanuages in the World ; excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.



Bonifacy Miązek (1935 - )
list bullet  "Auschwitz Psalm." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 217.



Cezary Michalski (1963 - )
  The Lake of Radicals: excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Book Institute. [Note: the URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]
  Worse Worlds: excerpt. Trans. Soren Gauger. Book Institute. [Note: the URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]



Adam Michnik (1946 - )
list bullet  The Church and the Left. Trans. David Ost. Chicago: U Chicago P. 1993.
list bullet  "Don Quixote and Invective." Trans. Lillian Vallee. Four Decades of Polish Essays. Ed. Jan Kott. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern U P. 1990. 373-396.
periodical icon  Essays and Op-eds. Adam Michnik is a prolific essay writer; some of the many periodicals that have published his pieces include:


list bullet  In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe. Trans. Roman S. Czarny. Ed. Irena Grudzińska Gross. Berkeley: U California P. 2011.
list bullet  Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives. Ed. Irena Grudzińska-Gross. Trans. Jane Cave. Berkeley: U California P. 1998.
list bullet  Letters from Prison and Other Essays. Trans. Maya Latyński. Berkeley: U California P. 1987.
list bullet  The Trouble with History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution. Trans. Elżbieta Matynia, Agnieszka Marczyk, and Roman Czarny. New Haven, CT: Yale U P. 2014.
list bullet  An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik. Trans. Elżbieta Matynia. New Haven, CT: Yale U P. 2014.



Artur Międzyrzecki (1922-1996)
  13 Poems. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.


list bullet  14 Poems. Trans. Artur Międzyrzecki and John Batki. Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press. 1972.
list bullet  " . . . And northward sparsely clad . . ." Trans. George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer. Homage to Mandelstam: An Anthology of Poems. Ed. George Gömöri. Cambridge, UK: Los Poetry Press. 1981. 21. Polish and English.
list bullet  The Four Seasons. Warsaw: Polonia. 1955.



Jarosław Mikołajewski (1960 - )
list bullet  Froth: Poems. Trans. Piotr Florczyk. Philadelphia, PA: Calypso Editions. 2013.



Zygmunt Mikulski (1920-1998)
list bullet  "A Hymn of Building." Trans. Antoni Gronowicz. The Polish Review 17.2 (Spring 1972): 83.



Piotr Milewski (1964 - )
  "The Year of the Dog." Trans. Piotr Milewski. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 20(2011).



Krystyna Miłobędzka (1932 - )
list bullet  2 Poems. Trans. Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese. Edinburgh Review. Special issue: "Made in Poland: New Writing from Poland." 121 (2007).


list bullet  3 Poems. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 7.2 (Summer 1999). Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
list bullet  3 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).
generic item icon  5 Poems. Trans. Alissa Valles. Words Without Borders:The Online Magazine for International Literature.
list bullet  8 Poems. Trans. Regina Grol. Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry. Ed. Regina Grol. Austin, TX: Host Publications. 1996. Polish and English.
list bullet   Nothing More. Trans. Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese. Tormorden, UK: Arc. 2013.



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Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004)
  2 Poems. Trans. Ryszard J. Reisner. Ars Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art 5 (2005).


list bullet  2 Poems. Chicago Review. 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).
  2 Poems. Trans. not identified. The Guardian Unlimited 10 Nov. 2001.
list bullet  2 Poems. Trans. John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter. Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. Emergy George. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis. 1983.
list bullet  2 Poems. Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. 1995.
list bullet  2 Poems. Literature: The Evolving Canon. 2nd ed. Ed. Sven P. Birkerts. Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon. 1995.
list bullet  2 Poems. Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times. Ed. Neil Astley. New York: Hyperion. 2003.
  2 Poems. Trans. Robert Hass. Washington Post 6 Dec. 1998.
list bullet  3 Poems. Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. Ed. Carolyn Forché. New York: Norton. 1993.
generic item icon  3 Poems. The Legacy Project.
list bullet  3 Poems. Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered". Ed. Catherine Bowman. New York: Vintage. 2003.
list bullet  4 Pieces. Polish Writers on Writing. Ed. Adam Zagajewski. San Antonio, TX: Trinity U P. 2007.
  4 Poems. Nobelprize.org. English and Polish.
list bullet  4 Poems. The Gospels in Our Image: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry Based on Biblical Texts. Ed. David Curzon. New York: Harcourt. 1995. Various pages.
list bullet  4 Poems. Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry. Ed. J. D. McClatchy. New York: Vintage Books. 1996.
list bullet  5 Poems. Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology. 3rd. ed. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. Berkeley: U California P. 1983.
list bullet  5 Poems. Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation. Ed. Roger Housden. New York: Harmony Books. 2003.
list bullet  5 Poems. World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time. Ed. Katharine Washburn and John S. Major. New York: Norton. 1998.
list bullet  7 Poems. The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry from "The American Poetry Review". Ed. Stephen Berg and others. New York: Norton. 2001. 453-461.
generic item icon  14 Poems. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.
generic item icon  26 Poems, with analytical commentary by Aleksandra Kolodziejczyk, Iwona Kowalska, and Dariusz Plygawko. Ed. Agata Dybel and Peter K. Gessner. "Czeslaw Milosz Pages." InfoPoland: Poland in the Classroom. University at Buffalo.
list bullet  Beginning with My Streets: Baltic Reflections. Trans. Madeline G. Levine. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. 1992.
list bullet  Bells in Winter. New York: Norton. 1988.
  "Campo dei Fiori."Trans. Louis Irribarne and David Brooks. InfoPoland. University at Buffalo. English and Polish.
list bullet  The Captive Mind. New York: Vintage. 1990. Reissue.
list bullet  Collected Poems. New York: Ecco. 1990. Reprint.
list bullet  Emperor of the Earth. Berkeley: U California P. 1981.
list bullet  "Encounter." The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Paine and others. New York: Perennial. 2001. 303.
list bullet  Facing the River. Trans. Robert Hass. New York: Ecco. 1995.
"Faith." Trans. Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky, with Renata Gorczynski. The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: APoetry Anthology. Ed. Robert Bly, James Hillman and Michael Meade. New York: Harper Perennial. 1992. 275.
list bullet  "Gus Spellbound." Trans. Andrzej Busza and Bogdan Czaykowski. Gathering Time: Five Modern Polish Elegies. Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press. 1983. 41-48.
list bullet  "Incantation." Discovering Poetry. Ed. Hans P. Guth and Gabriele L. Rico. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1993. 274.
list bullet  "Incantation." Trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Pinsky. Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology. Ed. Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz. New York: Norton. 2002. 317.
list bullet  The Issa Valley. Trans. Louis Iribarne. New York: Noonday Press. 2000.
list bullet  "I walked today through the garden misty with spring . . ." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. The Polish Review 29.1-2 (Winter-Spring 1984): 3-4.
list bullet  Miłosz's ABC's. Trans. Madeline G. Levine. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 2002.
list bullet  "My Faithful Mother Tongue." Discovering the Many Worlds of Literature: Literature for Composition. Ed. Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg. New York: Longman. 2004.
list bullet  Native Realm: a Search for Self-Definition. Trans. Catherine S. Leach. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2002.
list bullet  New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001. New York: Ecco. 2001.
generic item icon  Nobel Prize Lecture. Available from several sources, including:
generic item icon  "On Exile." City of Poets: Bratislav, Budapest, Dublin, Ljubljana, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw. Dublin: 17 June 2004 Project Arts Centre. Warsaw: Foundation for International Initiatives. 2004. 6-15.
list bullet  "On Prayer." Trans. Robert Hass. Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times. Ed. Joan Murray. Boston: Beacon Press. 2001. 107.
list bullet  Provinces. Trans. Robert Hass. New York: Ecco. 1991.
list bullet  A Roadside Dog. Trans. Robert Hass. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 1999.
list bullet  Świat / The World. Trans. Czeław Miłosz. San Francisco, CA: Arion Press. 1989.
list bullet  "They Will Place There Telescreens." Trans. Czeław Miłosz. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP. 1993. 272.
list bullet  To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2002.
list bullet  A Treatise on Poetry. Trans. Robert Hass. New York: Ecco. 2001.
list bullet  Unattainable Earth. Trans. Robert Hass. New York: Ecco. 1987.
list bullet  Visions from San Francisco Bay. Trans. Richard Lourie. New York: Noonday Press. 1983.
list bullet  Witness of Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U P. 1999.
list bullet  "You who have wronged a simple man . . ." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. The Polish Review 26.2 (Spring 1981): 3.



Zygmunt Miłoszewski (1976 - )
list bullet  Entanglement. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. London: Bitter Lemon Press. 2010.
list bullet  A Grain of Truth; A Second Case for Polish State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. London: Bitter Lemon Press. 2013.



Małgorzata Misiewicz (1951 - )
list bullet  11 Poems. Trans. Regina Grol. Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry. Ed. Regina Grol. Austin, TX: Host Publications. 1996. Polish and English.



Laryssa Mitzner (aka Elżbieta Piotrowska, Barbara Gordon) (1918 - 1987)
list bullet  2 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.



Leszek A. Moczulski (1930 - )
list bullet  Revolution Without Revolution: The Anti-Communist Manifesto. Trans. not identified. Menlo Park, CA: Center for the Study of Opposition in Poland. 1979, 1982.



Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013)
list bullet  2 Stories. Trans. Marcus Wheeler. The Modern Polish Mind: An Anthology of Stories and Essays by Writers Living in Poland Today. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962.


list bullet  3 Letters to Jan Błonski. Trans. Alissa Valles. Polish Writers on Writing. Ed. Adam Zagajewski. San Antonio, TX: Trinity U P. 2007.
list bullet  4 Prose Pieces. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).
list bullet  "Co-existence." Trans. Wiesiek Powaga. The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy. Ed. Wiesiek Powaga. Dublin: Dedalus. 1996. 12-16.
list bullet  The Elephant. Trans. Konrad Syrop. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1962, 1975 and New York: Grove Press. 1984.
list bullet  "The Elephant." Trans. Konrad Syrop. The Eagle and the Crow: Modern Polish Short Stories. Ed. Teresa Halikowska and George Hyde. London: Serpent's Tail. 1996. 78-82.
list bullet  "How to Be Better." Trans. Edward Rothert. Polish Perspectives 25.3 (1982): 37-41.
list bullet  "If It's Not One Thing It's Not the Other Either." Trans. Hilda Rusiecka. Polish Perspectives 25.4 (1982): 49-50..
list bullet  The Mrozek Reader. Ed. Daniel Gerould. New York: Grove Press. 2003.
list bullet  "Our Game." Trans. not identified. Polish Perspectives 26.2 (1983): 45-47.
list bullet  The Police: excerpt. Trans. Nicholas Bethell. The Real Poland: An Anthology of National Self-Perception. Ed. Alfred Bloch. New York: Continuum. 1982. 172-180.
list bullet  Portrait. Trans. Jacek Laskowski. Playwrights Before the Fall: Drama in Eastern Europe in Times of Revolution. Ed. Daniel Gerould. New York: Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications. 2009. 1-108.
list bullet  Six Plays. Trans. Nicholas Bethell. New York: Grove Press. 1967.
list bullet  "The Spring in Poland." Trans. Konrad Syrop. The Eagle and the Crow: Modern Polish Short Stories. Ed. Teresa Halikowska and George Hyde. London: Serpent's Tail. 1996. 83-87.
list bullet  Three Plays: "Striptease," "Repeat Performance," and "The Prophets." New York: Applause Books. 1986.
list bullet  Tango. Trans. Nicholas Bethell; adapted by Tom Stoppard. London: Cape. 1868.
list bullet  Tango; a Play in Three Acts. Trans. Ralph Manheim and Teresa Dzieduscycka. New York: Grove Press. 1968.
list bullet  Tango. Trans. Cyprian Podlaszewski. In Visegrad Drama. Vol. 3 - The Sixties. Prague: Arts and Theatre Institute. 2009. 215-285.



Joanna Mueller (1979 - )
  "Lanugo." Trans. Marek Kazmierski. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. headphones iconAudio of poem also provided.



Grzegorz Musiał (1952 - )
  11 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.


list bullet  11 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.
list bullet  "Poem for Allen Ginzburg." Trans. Richard Chetwynd. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP. 1993. 297-298.
list bullet  Poems of Gregorz Musiał. Trans. Lia Purpura. London: Associated University Presses. 1998.
  "Vence." Trans. Lia Purpura. Frigatezine.



Wiesław Myśliwski (1932 - )
list bullet  Palace. Trans. Ursula Phillips. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions. 1991.
list bullet  Stone upon Stone. Trans. Bill Johnston. Brooklyn: Archipelago Books. 2010.
list bullet  A Treatise on Shelling Beans. Trans. Bill Johnston. Brooklyn: Archipelago Books. 2013.
list bullet  The Tree : excerpts from the stage adaptation. Trans. Edward Rothert. Polish Perspectives 32.1 (1989): 33-47.




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