POLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

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A Bibliography / Guide







CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
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Additions to this page made in Spring 2014 are indicated by a gold border.



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Artur Sandauer (1913-1989)
list bullet  "Death of a Liberal." Trans. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland. Ed. Antony Polonsky and Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska. Lincoln, NE: U Nebraska P. 2001. 135-142.
list bullet  On the Situation of the Polish Writer of Jewish Descent in the Twentieth Century: (It Is not I Who Should Have Written This Study . . .). Trans. Abe Shenitzer, Sarah Shenitzer, and Hardy Grand. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press. 2005.



Andrzej Sapkowski (1948 - )
list bullet  Baptism of Fire. Trans. David French. London: Galancz. 2014.
list bullet  Blood of Elves. Trans. Danusia Stok. London: Gallancz. 2008 and New York: Orbit. 2009.
list bullet  "Hexer." Trans. Agnieszka Fulińska. Anthology: Chosen by Fate. Ed. Elżbieta Gepfert, Grzegorz Kozubski, and Piotr W. Cholewa. Warsaw: SuperNova. 2000. 161-191.
list bullet  The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher. Trans. Danusia Stok. London: Gollancz. 2007 and New York: Orbit. 2007.
  "The Malady." Trans. Wiesiek Powaga. PolishWriting: Prose and Poetry from Poland.
list bullet  The Time of Contempt. Trans. David French. London: Gallancz. 2013 and New York: Orbit. 2013.



Adam Schaff (1913-2006)
list bullet  "On Moral Responsibility." Trans. Paweł Mayewski. The Modern Polish Mind: An Anthology of Stories and Essays by Writers Living in Poland Today. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962. 343-351.



Bogusław Schaeffer (1929 - )
list bullet  Bogusław Schaeffer: An Anthology [contains Scenario for a Non-Existing, but Possible Instrumental Actor, Quartet for Four Actors, and Scenario for Three Actors]. Trans. Magda Romańska. London: Oberon Books. 2012.



Marcin Sendecki (1967 - )
generic item icon  3 Poems. Trans. Alissa Valles. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.


list bullet  4 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).
list bullet  7 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.
  36 Poems. University of Iowa Writing Program. [Page numbers identify the PDF page; several poems are offered in alternate translations.]
list bullet  "Carpathian Days." Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.
  "Everything's Smaller." Trans. Barbara Plebanek and Tony Howard. Poetry International. Polish and English.



Sławomir Shuty (1973 - )
  Flashbank: excerpt. Trans. Soren Gauger. Book Institute. [Note: The URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]
  Motions: excerpt. Trans. Soren Gauger. Book Institute. [Note: The URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]
  Sugar Level Normal with Extra Bonus: excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Book Institute. [Note: The URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]



Sylwia Siedlecka (1980 - )
  "Pups." Trans. Jennifer Croft. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 10(2010).



Mariusz Sieniewicz (1972 - )
  The Rebellion: excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Book Institute. [Note: The URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]
  We Don't Serve Jewish Women: excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Book Institute. [Note: The URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]



Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
list bullet  2 Stories. Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories -- An Anthology. Ed. Sandra Bark. New York: Warner Books. 2003.


list bullet  The Certificate. Trans. Leonard Wolf. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1992.
list bullet  The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Trans. Saul Bellow and others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1983.
list bullet  Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer [conducted by Richard Burgin]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1985.
list bullet  A Crown of Feathers . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1981.
list bullet  A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1986.
list bullet  "The Dead Fiddler." Trans. not identified. World of the Short Story . Ed. Clifton Fadiman. New York: Random House. 1990. 322-344.
list bullet  The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003.
list bullet  Enemies: a Love Story. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1988.
list bullet  The Estate. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1969.
list bullet  The Family Moskat. Trans. A.H. Gross New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007.
list bullet  The Fearsome Inn. Trans. I.B. Singer and Elizabeth Shub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1966. [Children's literature.]
list bullet  A Friend of Kafka . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1979.
list bullet  Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. Trans. Saul Bellow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2006.
list bullet  The Golem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1982. [Children's literature.]
list bullet  The Image and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1987.
list bullet  In My Father's Court. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1991.
list bullet   Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories. 3 vols. New York: Library of America. 2004.
list bullet  An Isaac Bashevis Singer Reader. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1971.
list bullet & link  "Job." Trans. David Stromberg. The New Yorker. 14 Aug. 2012.
list bullet  The King of the Fields. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003.
list bullet  Lost in America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1981.
list bullet  Love and Exile. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1986.
list bullet  The Magician of Lublin. Trans. Elaine Gottlieb and Joseph Singer. New York: Noonday Press. 1960.
list bullet  The Manor and the Estate. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2004.
list bullet  Mazel and Shlimazel; or, The Milk of a Lioness. Trans. I.B. Singer and Elizabeth Shub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1967. [Children's literature.]
list bullet  Meshugah. Trans. I.B. Singer and Nili Wachtel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003.
list bullet  More Stories from my Father's Court. Trans. Curt Leviant. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2001.
list bullet  Naftali the Storyteller and his Horse, Sus; and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1976. [Children's literature.]
list bullet  Old Love. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1979.
list bullet  Passions. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003.
list bullet  The Penitent. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1983.
list bullet  The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1980. [Children's literature.]
list bullet  Reaches of Heaven: a Story of the Baal Shem Tov. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1980.
list bullet  Satan in Goray. Trans. Jacob Sloan. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1996.
list bullet  Scum. Trans. Rosaline Dukalsky Schwartz. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003.
list bullet  The Seance and Other Stories. Trans. Roger H. Klein and others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1980.
list bullet  Shadows on the Hudson. Trans. Joseph Sherman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1998.
list bullet  Short Friday and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1964.
list bullet  Shosha: a Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1996.
list bullet  The Slave: a Novel. Trans. I.B. Singer and Cecil Hemley. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1988.
list bullet  The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1979.
list bullet  Stories for Children. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1985.
list bullet  When Schlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories. Trans. I.B. Singer and Elizabeth Shub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1968. [Children's literature.]
list bullet  Why Noah Chose the Dove. Trans. Elizabeth Shub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1987. [Children's literature.]
list bullet  Yentl the Yeshiva Boy. Trans. Marion Magid and Elizabeth Pollet. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1962, 1983.
list bullet  A Young Man in Search of Love. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1978.
list bullet  Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories. Trans. I.B. Singer and Elizabeth Shub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1966. [Children's literature.]



Jerzy Stanisław Sito (1934-2011)
list bullet  Tomorrow: Musical Drama in One Act. Trans. Hilda Rusiecka-Andrews. Warsaw: Polski Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1966. Musical score (based on Joseph Conrad's "Tomorrow").



Krzysztof Siwczyk (1977 - )
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.
   "Metaphors and Comparisons." Trans. Piotr Szymor and Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).



Christian Skrzyposzek (1943-1999)
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.



Włodzimierz Słobodnik (1900-1991)
list bullet  "To Adam Mickiewicz." Trans. Antoni Gronowicz. The Polish Review 17.2 (Spring 1972): 79-80.



Andrzej Słomianowski (1943 - )
list bullet  "Beginning." Trans. Adam A. Zych. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 265-266.



Paweł Smoleński (1959 - )
  "Painting the Occupation." Trans. Sean Gasper Bye. Words without Borders. 30 Jan. 2014.



Teresa Socha-Lisowska (1928-2010)
list bullet  "Nothing Is More Sorrowful." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 268.



Piotr Sommer (1948 - )
list bullet  2 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).


generic item icon  3 Poems. Trans. W. Martin and Christian Hawkey. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.
  7 Poems. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. University of Iowa International Writing Program.
  17 Poems: read by Sommer in Polish and English. headphones icon Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. University of Pennsylvania.
list bullet  Continued. Trans. John Ashbery and others. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan U P and Hexham, UK: Bloodaxe Books. 2005.
  "Lighter, Darker." Trans. Piotr Sommer and M. Kasper. AGNI 56 (2002).
  "Out of Town." Poetry Feb. 2005.
list bullet  Things to Translate and Other Poems. Trans. John Ashbery and E. Adams. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe Books. 1991.



Kazimierz Sopuch (1933 - )
list bullet  Untitled from the cycle "The Soil." Trans. Adam A. Zych. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 269.



Andrzej Sosnowski (1959 - )
generic item icon  2 Poems. Trans. Rod Mengham. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.


  2 Poems. Trans. Benjamin Paloff. Molossus. [Listed in the order in which they appear on the page.]
  2 Poems. Trans. Rod Mengham. Jacket 16 (Mar. 2002).
   2 Poems. Trans. Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).
   3 Poems. Trans. Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006-Supplement).
generic item icon  3 Poems. Trans. Rod Mengham. City of Poets: Bratislav, Budapest, Dublin, Ljubljana, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw. Dublin: 17 June 2004 Project Arts Centre. Warsaw: Foundation for International Initiatives. 2004.

list bullet  3 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. Fall 2000.
list bullet  3 Poems. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing (2001): 215-218.
list bullet  8 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.
list bullet  Lodgings. Trans. Benjamin Paloff. Rochester, NY: Open Letter. 2011.
  "Shrovetide (11/12 August 1993)." Trans. Rod Mengham. Jubilat.
  "Song for Europe." Trans. Wiesiek Powaga. The Guardian Unlimited 16 Feb. 2002.



Jerzy Sosnowski (1962 - )
  Rip Current: excerpt. Trans. Ela Kotkowska. Book Institute. [Note: The URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]
  That's the One: excerpt. Trans. Soren Gauger. Book Institute. [Note: The URLs of the Book Institute have been subject to frequent change.]



Dariusz Sośnicki (1969 - )
list bullet  2 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).


list bullet  2 Poems. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.
  3 Poems. Trans. Piotr Florczyk and Boris Dralyuk. Biblioasis International Translation Blog. [Listed in the order in which they appear on the page.]
  3 Poems. Trans. Tadeusz Pióro. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006-Supplement).
  3 Poems. Trans. Piotr Florczyk and Boris Dralyuk. Molossus. [Listed in the order in which they appear on the page.]
  17 Poems. University of Iowa Writing Program.
list bullet  The World Shared. Trans. Piotr Florczyk and Boris Dralyuk. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions. 2014. Polish and English.



Wojciech Stamm (1965 - )
  Roady: excerpt ("Spring"). Trans. Michał Czarniecki. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 3(2010). headphones iconAudio also provided.



Pola Stan ( ? - )
No English translations of her work appear to be available at this time.



Stanisław Stanuch (1931-2005 )
list bullet  "Portrait from Memory." Trans. Celina Wieniewska. The Modern Polish Mind: An Anthology of Stories and Essays by Writers Living in Poland Today. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962. 112-123.



Andrzej Stasiuk (1960 - )
list bullet  7 selections. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.
list bullet  Dukla. Trans. Bill Johnston. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press. 2011.
list bullet  Fado. Trans. Bill Johnston. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press. 2009.
list bullet  Galician Tales: excerpts. Trans. Margarita Nafpaktitis. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000): 241-254.
list bullet  Nine. Trans. Bill Johnston. New York: Harcourt. 2007.
list bullet  On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe. Trans. Michael Kandel. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011.
list bullet  Tales of Galicia. Trans. Margarita Nafpaktitis. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press. 2003.
list bullet  "That Fear." Trans. Michael Kandel. 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. 174-177.
list bullet  "Travelling to Babadag." Trans. Michael Kandel. Orientations: An Anthology of East European Travel Writing, ca. 1550-2000. Ed. Wendy Bracewell. New York: Central European University Press. 2009. 370-375.
  White Raven: excerpt. Trans. Wiesiek Powaga. PolishWriting: Prose and Poetry from Poland.
list bullet  White Raven. Trans. Wiesiek Powaga. London: Serpent's Tail. 2001.



Jerzy Stefan Stawiński (1921-2010)
list bullet  Kanał. Dir. Andrzej Wajda. 1957. Subtitles.
list bullet  Kanał. In Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films. 2005. Subtitles.
list bullet  Kanal. Trans. Bolesław Sulik. In Ashes and Diamonds, Kanal, a Generation: Three Films by Andrzej Wajda. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1973.



Jolanta Stefko (1971 - )
No English translations of her work appear to be available at this time.



Ludwika Steinfeld (1930 - )
list bullet  2 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.




Julian Stryjkowski [Pesach Stark] (1905-1996)
list bullet  2 selections. Trans. Christopher Garbowski. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland. Ed. Antony Polonsky and Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska. Lincoln, NE: U Nebraska P. 2001.

  • Judas Maccabeus: Afterword ; excerpt. 54-56.
  • Voices in the Darkness ; excerpts. 5-53.

list bullet  The Inn. Trans. Celina Wieniewska. New York: Harcourt. 1972. Also: London: Barrie & Jenkins. 1972.



Janusz Styczeń (1939 - )
list bullet  4 selections. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.



Katarzyna Suchcicka (1959 - )
list bullet  9 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.

  • "And Yet." 360-361.
  • "Biology is Smiling." 348-349.
  • "The Eternal Feminine." 356-357.
  • "Guilt." 352-353.
  • "Haiku." 348-349.
  • "Love Making." 358-359.
  • "A Means of Existence." 362-363.
  • "A Stigma." 354-355.
  • "The Two." 350-351.

list bullet  Selected Poems. Trans. Katarzyna Suchcicka and Regina Grol. Stockholm: Polish Institute. 2002.



Dariusz Suska (1968 - )
  "All the Hovels in the World, and So This Room as Well." Trans. Bill Johnston. Brindin Press. Polish and English.



Witold Szabłowski (1980)
list bullet  The Assassin from Apricot City: Reportage from Turkey. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. London: Stork Press. 2013.



Józef Szajna (1922-2008)
list bullet  Replika. Trans. E.J. Czerwinski. Plays of the Holocaust: An International Anthology. Ed. Elinor Fuchs. New York: Theatre Communications Group. 1993. 147-152.



Mieczysław Michał Szargan (1933 - )
list bullet  Untitled ["There was smoke . . ."]. Trans. Adam A. Zych. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 276.



Leszek Szaruga (1946 - )
list bullet  2 selections. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.
list bullet  3 Poems. Trans. W.D. Snodgrass and others. Selected Translations. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions. 1998.


  After All. Trans. Frank L. Vigoda. Riverside, CA: Vigoda Press. 2013.
list bullet  "Auschwitz 1998." Trans. June Friedman. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 277.



Jan Józef Szczepański (1919-2003)
list bullet  2 Essays. Trans. not identified. Polish Perspectives 29.32 (1986).


list bullet  "Hypocrisy." Trans. not identified. Polish Perspectives 26.2 (1983): 38-44.
list bullet  "Letter to Julian Stryjkowski" [epistolary essay]. Trans. Alissa Valles. Polish Writers on Writing. Ed. Adam Zagajewski. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press. 2007. 147-157.
list bullet  "The Tramp." Trans. Barbara Vedder. The Modern Polish Mind: An Anthology of Stories and Essays by Writers Living in Poland Today. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962. 36-49.



Joanna Szczepkowska (1953 - )
No English translations of her work appear to be available at this time.



Mariusz Szczygieł (1966 - )
list bullet  Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House. 2014.
  "Make your own Paradise." Trans. not identified. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 12(2011).



Andrzej Szczypiorski (1924-2000)
list bullet  The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman. Trans. Klara Główczewska. New York: Grove Press. 1997. Reprint.
list bullet  "The Lady with the Medallion." Trans. Wiesiek Powaga. The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy. Ed. Wiesiek Powaga. Sawtry, UK: Dedalus. 1996. 17-34.
list bullet  A Mass for Arras. Trans. Richard Lourie. New York: Grove Press. 1994.
list bullet  The Polish Ordeal: A View from Within. Trans. Celina Wieniewska. London: Croom Helm. 1982.
list bullet  Self-Portrait with Woman: a Novel. Trans. Bill Johnston. New York: Grove Press. 1997.
list bullet  The Shadow Catcher. Trans. Bill Johnston. New York: Grove Press. 1998.



Piotr Szewc (1961 - )
list bullet  Annihilation: excerpt. Trans. Jarosław Anders. Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing. Ed. Michael March. New York: Vintage. 1994. 33-38.
  Annihilation: excerpt. Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarborough. PolishWriting: Prose and Poetry from Poland.
list bullet  Annihilation. Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press. 1999.
list bullet  Dusk and Dawn: excerpts. Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000): 315-320.



Artur Szlosarek (1968 - )
list bullet  2 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).


list bullet  2 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.
  "Temptation." Trans. Anna Skucińska. AGNI Online. 2006.



Andrzej Szmidt (1933-2006)
list bullet  2 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).



Andrzej Szuba (1949 - )
list bullet  9 Poems. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.
list bullet  Postscripta wybrane / Selected Postscripts. Trans. Jean Ward. Katowice, PL: Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Sląskiego. 2003. Polish and English.
list bullet  Shreds and Postscripts. Trans. Jean Ward. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Miniatura. 2010.



Janusz Szuber (1948 - )
generic item icon  2 Poems. Trans. Alissa Valles. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.


  "About a Boy Stirring Jam." Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. A Year of Being Here. 10 Apr. 2013.
list bullet  Las w lustrach / Forest in the Mirrors. Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough and Clare Cavanagh. Rzeszów, PL: Wydawn. YES. 2001. Polish and English.
list bullet  They Carry a Promise: Selected Poems. Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. New York: Knopf. 2009.



Adriana Szymańska (1943 - )
list bullet  5 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.



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Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)
list bullet  2 Pieces. Polish Writers on Writing. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Ed. Adam Zagajewski. San Antonio, TX: Trinity U P. 2007.


list bullet  2 Poems. Trans. Magnus J. Kryński and Robert A. Maguire. The Polish Review 26.1 (Winter 1981).
list bullet  2 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  2 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).
list bullet  2 Poems. Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times. Ed. Neil Astley. New York: Hyperion. 2003.
list bullet  2 Poems. Trans. Adam Czerniawski. Edinburgh Review. Special issue: "Made in Poland: New Writing from Poland." 121 (2007).
list bullet  2 Poems. Trans. not identified. Les Doigts Bleus.
list bullet  3 Poems. Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry. Ed. Aliki Barnstone. Boston: Shambhala. 1999.
   3 Poems in 2 different English translations by Magnus Jan Krynski/Robert A. Maguire (1981) and Marek Ługowski/Joanna Trzeciak (1988), with commentary on translation issues. Marek Ługowski. "Wisława Szymborska in Polish and English & Divergencies Inherent in Poetry Translation: an Informal Reading."Small Garlic Press.
list bullet  3 Poems. Trans. Adam Czerniawski. Moved by the Spirit: An Anthology of Polish Religious Poetry. Ed. Adam Czerniawski. Belfast: Lapwing. 2010. Polish and English.
list bullet  3 Poems. Poet's Choice: Poems for Everyday Life. Ed. Robert Hass. New York: Ecco. 1998.
list bullet   4 Poems. The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection. Ed. Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P. 1978.
  5 Poems. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Nobel Prize. Text in English, Polish, and Swedish.
generic item icon  5 Poems. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Cross-Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture 7(1988).
list bullet  5 Poems. A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. New York: Harvest. 1998.
list bullet  6 Poems. Trans. and Ed. Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak. Ariadne's Thread: Polish Women Poets. Wayland, MA and London, UK: Forest Books. 1988.
list bullet  6 Poems. Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. Ed. Carolyn Forché. New York: Norton. 1993.
generic item icon  7 Poems (2 appearing in different translations). Brindin Press. Polish and English.
list bullet  7 Poems. Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. Emery George. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis. 1983.
list bullet  7 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.
  7 Poems. Poetry Archive.
list bullet  7 Poems. Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry. Ed. J. D. McClatchy. New York: Vintage. 1996.
list bullet  8 Poems. Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology. 3rd. ed. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. Berkeley: U California P. 1983.
generic item icon  8 Poems. The Wondering Minstrels. Rice University.
generic item icon  9 Poems. Poet Seers.
generic item icon  16 Poems. Trans. Walter Whipple. LDS Mission Network.
generic item icon  25 Poems. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.
list bullet  40 Poems. Trans. Magnus J. Kryński and Robert A. Maguire. "Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: The Poetry of Wisława Szymborska." Magnus J. Kryński and Robert A. Maguire. The Polish Review 24.3 (Summer 1979): 3-44.
list bullet  "Born of Woman." The Gospels in Our Image: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry Based on Biblical Texts. Ed. David Curzon. New York: Harcourt. 1995.
  "Cassandra." Trans. not identified. InfoPoland: Poland in the Classroom. University at Buffalo.
list bullet  Chwila / Moment. Trans. Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Znak. 2003. Polish and English.
list bullet  "Contribution to Statistics." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology. Ed. Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz. New York: Norton. 2002. 289-291.
  "Could Have." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Daniel Traister. University of Pennsylvania.
  "The End and the Beginning." Trans. Joanna Trzeciak. Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools. United States Library of Congress.
list bullet  "The End and the Beginning." Trans. Joseph Brodsky. Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times. Ed. Joan Murray. Boston: Beacon Press. 2001. 94-96.
  "A Few Words on the Soul." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. AGNI (56): 2002.
  "First Love." Trans. Joanna Trzeciak. The Blue Moon Review.
list bullet  Here. Trans. Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak. New York: Mariner Books. 2012.
list bullet  "Hitler's First Photograph." Trans. Karen Kovacik. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP. 1993. 275-276.
list bullet  "I Am Too Near." Trans. Czesław Miłosz. A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now: Selections from the World Over. Rev. ed. Ed. Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone. New York: Schocken Books. 1992. 346-347.
  "Into the Ark." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Jewish Heritage Online Magazine.
list bullet  Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wisława Szymborska. Trans. Joanna Trzeciak. New York: Norton. 2001.
list bullet  Monologue of a Dog. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. New York: Harcourt. 2005.
list bullet  Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York: Harcourt. 2002.
list bullet  Nothing Twice: Selected Poems.. Trans. Nothing Twice: Selected Poems and Clare Cavanagh. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie. 1997. Polish and English.
  "No Title Required." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. The Manhattan Review 7.1 (Fall 1993).
list bullet  People on a Bridge. Trans. Adam Czerniawski. Wayland, MA and London, UK: Forest Books. 1990.
list bullet  Poems: New and Collected: 1957-1997. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. London: Faber.
generic item icon  "The Poet and the World" (Nobel Prize Lecture), trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. This speech is available at several websites, including:
  "Psalm." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. A.Word.A.Day 22 (24 Dec. 2000). [Scroll down that page for the poem.]
  "Some Like Poetry." Trans. Regina Grol. InfoPoland: Poland in the Classroom. University at Buffalo.
list bullet  Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts. Trans. Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U P. 1981. Reprint.
  "Stage Fright." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. The Manhattan Review 4.2 (Spring 1988).
list bullet  "Still." Trans. Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 279-280.
list bullet  "The Terrorist--He Watches." An Introduction to Literature. 13th ed. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William E. Cain. Harlow, UK: Longman. 2004.
list bullet  "The Terrorist--He Watches." Trans. Magnus Jan Krynski and Robert A. Maguire. Literature: The Evolving Canon. 2nd ed. Ed. Sven P. Birkerts. Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon. 1995. 580-581.
list bullet  "Under a Certain Little Star." The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Paine and others. London: Perennial. 2001. 304-305.
list bullet  View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. New York: Harcourt. 1995.



Adam Szyper (1939 - )
list bullet  3 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.


list bullet  And Suddenly Spring. Merrick, New York: Cross-Cultural Communications. 1992.
list bullet  The Harvest. Merrick, New York: Cross-Cultural Communications. 2006.




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