Elegy for the departure and other poems / Zbigniew Herbert ; translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter.
1999
PG7167.E64 A23 1999
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Title
Elegy for the departure and other poems / Zbigniew Herbert ; translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter.
Author
Uniform Title
Poems. English. Selections
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0880016191
9780880016193
9780880016193
Imprint
Hopewell, NJ : Ecco Press, 1999.
Language
English
Description
132 p. ; 24 cm.
Exhibited
1999 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PG7167.E64 A23 1999
Summary
Available for the first time in English, Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems is an important collection from the late Zbigniew Herbert. Translated from the Polish by award-winning translators John and Bogdana Carpenter, these sixty-eight verse and prose poems span forty years of Herbert's life and work. The pieces are organized chronologically from 1950 to 1990, with an emphasis on the writer's early and late poems.
Formatted Contents Note
Three Poems by Heart
A Ballad That We Do Not Perish
The Ardennes Forest
About Troy
Home
Architecture
Chord
Verses of a Pantheist
The Troubles of a Little Creator
Fragment of a Greek Vase
Altar
Furnished Room
What Our Dead Do
My City
Balconies
Song of the Drum
A Small Bird
Thorns and Roses
Chosen by the Stars
An Answer
How We Were Introduced
In a Studio
A Box Called the Imagination
We fall asleep on words ...
Farewell to the City
On the Margin of the Trial
Bears
A Button
Cat
Country
Drunkards
From the End
The Wolf and the Sheep
War
The Dead
Forest
Crossing Guard
Still Life
Wasp
A Suicide
Life of a Warrior
Hotel
Clock
Impartial Autumn
The Poet's House
Principality
Chinese Wallpaper
Cernunnos
A Native Devil
Oaks
Transformations of Livy
The Nepenthe Family
Blackthorn
Mass for the Imprisoned
A Ballad That We Do Not Perish
The Ardennes Forest
About Troy
Home
Architecture
Chord
Verses of a Pantheist
The Troubles of a Little Creator
Fragment of a Greek Vase
Altar
Furnished Room
What Our Dead Do
My City
Balconies
Song of the Drum
A Small Bird
Thorns and Roses
Chosen by the Stars
An Answer
How We Were Introduced
In a Studio
A Box Called the Imagination
We fall asleep on words ...
Farewell to the City
On the Margin of the Trial
Bears
A Button
Cat
Country
Drunkards
From the End
The Wolf and the Sheep
War
The Dead
Forest
Crossing Guard
Still Life
Wasp
A Suicide
Life of a Warrior
Hotel
Clock
Impartial Autumn
The Poet's House
Principality
Chinese Wallpaper
Cernunnos
A Native Devil
Oaks
Transformations of Livy
The Nepenthe Family
Blackthorn
Mass for the Imprisoned
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