POLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Bohdan Zadura (1945 - )
  4 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).

• "Gliders." Trans. Piotr Sommer and M. Kasper. 183.
• "Kossuth Tér." Trans. Piotr Sommer and M. Kasper. 184.
• "Overexposed Photographs." Trans. Piotr Sommer and M. Kasper. 185.
• "A Suburb of Gyula." Trans. Piotr Sommer and M. Kasper. 184-185.

Adam Zagajewski (1945 - )
  2 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.

• "The Blackened River." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 314.
• "Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 313-314.

  2 Poems. A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. New York: Harvest Books. 1998.

• "Auto Mirror." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 128.
• "Moths." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 19.

  2 Poems. Samizdat 1 (Autumn 1998).

• "December," trans. Clare Cavanagh.
• "Vaporetto," trans. not identified.

  2 Poems. Trans. Karen Karleski. Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Ed. Walter Cummins. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson U P. 1993.

• "In May." 285.
• "Poems on Poland." 286.

  2 Poems. Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times. Ed. Neil Astley. New York: Hyperion. 2003.

• "Moment." Trans. Renata Gorczynski. 430.
• "Try to Praise the Mutilated World." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. 155.

    3 Poems. Academy of American Poets's Poets.org.

•   "Balance." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
•   "My Aunts." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
•   "Self-Portrait." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.

  3 Poems. Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology. 3rd. ed. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. Berkeley, CA: U California P. 1983.

• "Freedom." Trans. Antony Graham. 190.
• "I Talked to a Frenchman." Trans. Antony Graham. 190.
• "Verses About Poland." Trans. Antony Graham. 191.

  4 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).

• "Dead Sparrow." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. 102.
• "Escalator." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. 101.
• "Where Breath Is." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. 100.
• "You Know." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. 100.

  5 Poems. Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry. Ed. J. D. McClatchy. New York: Vintage Books. 1996.

• "At Daybreak." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 156.
• "Betrayal." Trans. Renata Gorczynski. 155-156.
• "Electric Elegy." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 157-158.
• "Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 158-159.
• "When Death Came." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. 159-160.

  6 Poems.

• "Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
• "Fire." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
• "My Aunts." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
• "Self-Portrait." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
• "Try to Praise the Mutilated World." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
• "Vermeer's Little Girl." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.

    10 Poems. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. Poetry International. In Polish and English.

•   "Cafe." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "Gate." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "Improvisation." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "In a Little Apartment." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "Luxembourg Garden." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "New Hotel."
•   "Poetry Searches for Radiance." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "Ravenna." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "Subject: Brodsky." In addition, audio of Polish original.
•   "Vita Contemplativa." In addition, audio of Polish original.

    15 Poems. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

•   "Brevier." Trans. John Carpenter.
•   "Escalator." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
•   "Fire." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "Flag." Trans. John Carpenter.
•   "He Acts." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "Iron." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "Lightning." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "My Masters." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "Plans, Reports." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
•   "A Polish Dictionary." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "Thorns." Trans. John Carpenter.
•   "To Go to Lwów." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "The Trial." Trans. Renata Gorczynski.
•   "Where Breath Is." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.
•   "You Know." Trans. Clare Cavanagh.

  Another Beauty. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2000 and Athens: U Georgia P. 2002.
  Canvas. Trans. C.K. Williams and others. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 1991 and New York: Noonday Press. 1994.
  A Defense of Ardor: Essays. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004 (hardcover); 2005 (paper).
  Eternal Enemies. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 2008.
  "Flamenco": excerpt. Trans. Lillian Vallee. Polish Writers on Writing. Ed. Adam Zagajewski. San Antonio, TX: Trinity UP. 2007. 233-239.
  "The Little Larousse": Excerpts. Trans. Lillian Vallee. Four Decades of Polish Essays. Ed. Jan Kott. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern U P. 1990. 363-372.
  "Music Heard with You." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. Words Without Borders (March 2004).
  Mysticism for Beginners. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. 1997.
  "New World." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 7.2 (Summer 1999). 102-111.
  "The Poppies' Fragile Glory." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. AGNI 53 (2001).
  Selected Poems. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. London: Faber and Faber. 2004.
  "Smoke." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. AGNI 53 (2001).
  Solidarity, Solitude: Essays. Trans. Lillian Vallee. New York: Ecco Press. 1990.
  "The Soul." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. AGNI 56 (2002).
  "There Is no Room for Osip Mandelstam." Trans. Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri. Homage to Mandelstam: An Anthology of Poems. Ed. George Gömöri. Cambridge, UK: Los Poetry Press. 1981. 68. Polish and English.
  Tremor: Selected Poems. Trans. Renata Gorczyński. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 1985.
  "Try to Praise the Mutilated World." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times.. Ed. Joan Murray. Boston: Beacon Press. 2001. 46-47.
  Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination. Trans. Lillian Vallee. Athens: U Georgia P. 2002.
  Unseen Hand. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 2012. Reprint.
  "Vermeer's Little Girl." Trans. not identified.
  "Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America." Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. The Manhattan Review 6.1 (Fall 1991).
  Without End. Trans. Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 2001, 2003.

Kamil Zając (1981 - )
  "Munina Adabisi's Final Song." Trans. Frank L. Vigoda. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 14(2011). Audio also provided.

Andrzej Zaniewski (1940 - )
  Rat. Trans. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. New York: Arcade Books. 1994. 2011.
  Untitled from the cycle "Notes from Auschwitz." Trans. Adam A. Zych. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 316.

Krzysztof Zanussi (1939 - )
  In Full Gallop and Six Other Screenplays. Trans. Charles S. Kraszewski. Lehman, PA: Libella Veritatis. 2001.
  Weekend Stories. Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi. In Polish with English subtitles. VHS.
  Wherever You Are: a Film. Trans. unknown. Calcutta: Seagull. 1992.
  A Year of the Quiet Sun. Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi. In Polish and English with English subtitles. VHS, DVD.

Zofia Zarębianka (1958 - )
  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.

• "And today you'll wake me up . . ." 424-425.
• "At sunset . . ." 422-423.
• "The black mole . . ." 25-426.
• "Flowers on the table . . ." 422-423.
• "How can I stand before you lord . . ." 426-427.
• "How can one tame . . ." 418-419.
• "Into the silence . . ." 424-425.
• "No, I am not satisfied . . ." 418-419.
• "A Plea." 420-421.
• "Sometimes just presence . . ." 418-419.
• "We, who have already forgotten . . ." 416-417.

Filip Zawada (1975 - )
  "Trained Dogs." Trans. Ola Bilińska. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 22(2011). Audio also provided.

Katarzyna Zdanowicz-Cyganiak (1979 - )
  3 Poems. Trans. Ola Bilińska. Biweekly.pl: Link with Culture. 32(2011). Audio also provided. [Poems listed in the order in which they appear on the page]

• "Leśmian Song."
• "XXX."
• "Abacus."

Adam Zdrodowski (1979 - )
   4 Poems. Trans. Adam Zdrodowski. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006-Supplement).

• "Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar."
• "Poem Written during Office Hours."
• "Sestine Mon Amour."
• "Telling Fortunes."

Stanisław Zieliński (1917-1995)
  "Before Dawn." Trans. Jadwiga Zwolska. Contemporary Polish Short Stories. Ed. Andrzej Kijowski. Warsaw: Polonia Publishing. 1960. 307-314.

Rafał Ziemkiewicz (1964 - )
  "A Fairy." Trans. Jolanta Pers and David J. James. Anthology: Chosen by Fate. Ed. Elżbieta Gepfert, Grzegorz Kozubski, and Piotr W. Cholewa. Warsaw: SuperNova. 2000. 195-202.

Adam A[lfred] Zych (1945 - )
  9 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.

• "Auschwitz, 1987." Trans. Hilda Schiff. 321-322.
• "Belief" from the cycle "Polish Triptych." Trans. June Friedman. 324-325.
• "A Joy of Life." Trans. Adam A. Zych. 319-320.
• "The Survival Syndrome" from the cycle "Syndromes." Trans. June Friedman.326.
• Untitled from the cycle "Holocaust." Trans. Adam A. Zych. 323-324.
• Untitled. ["I was in the towns . . ."]. Trans. Adam A. Zych. 322.
• Untitled ["stories about crematoriums . . ."]. Trans. Adam A. Zych. 322-323.
• Untitled ["visit this place . . ."]. Trans. Adam A. Zych. 321.
• Untitled ["with all my being . . ."]. Trans. June Friedman. 325.

  "Auschwitz, 1987." Trans. Hilda Schiff. Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. 1995. 114.
  Emigrant's Psalms. Trans. June Friedman and Andrzej Diniejko. Kielce, PL: Tarcza. 1997.

Jan Zych (1931-1995)
  "Mowing of the Grass." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 327-328.

Tadeusz Żukowski (1955 - )
  5 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Young Poets of a New Poland: An Anthology. Lincoln Centre, MA: Forest Books. 1993.

• "A Letter -- Examination of Conscience." 106.
• "A Letter Full of the Desire to Move Mountains." 110.
• "A Letter of Consolation." 108.
• "A Letter to Poets in Flames." 109.
• "A Letter Written in a Fever." 107.

Wojciech Żukrowski (1916-2000)
  Lotna. Dir. Andrzej Wajda. 1959.
  "The Milk Sop." Trans. Jadwiga Zwolska. Contemporary Polish Short Stories. Ed. Andrzej Kijowski. Warsaw: Polonia Publishing. 1960. 317-339.
  Stone Tablets. Trans. Stephanie Kraft. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books. Feb. 2015.
  "Victory"; excerpt. [From the short Story "Wife."] Trans. not identified. The Modern Polish Mind. Ed. Maria Kuncewicz. London: Secker & Warburg. 1962. 400-404.

Krystyna Żywulska (Sonia Landau) (1918-1992)
  2 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.

• "The Morning Roll Call." Trans. June Friedman. 329-330.
• "A Never Mailed Letter." Trans. June Friedman. 331-333.

  I Survived Auschwitz : excerpts. Trans. not identified. tCHu Dom Wydawniczy.

•     "The Crematories."
•     "Twenty Thousand a Day."

  Empty Water: A Memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto. Trans. Lech Czerski and Sheila Callahan. Warsaw: tCHu. 2011.
  I Came Back. Trans. Krystyna Cenkalska. London: D. Dobson. 1951.

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