At last the full sequence of Herbert's brilliant Cogito poems are translated from the 1974 Polish edition, Pan Cogito. Herbert, who fought in the underground re

Baranczak--a poet, critic, translator, and Polish émigré--supplies politico-cultural context for Herbert while analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. He

From the Publisher: Every great poet lives between two worlds. One of these is the real, tangible world of history, private for some and public for others. The

Poems deal with the ethical need to discover and portray the truth, the power of propaganda, and the experience of political repression.

A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney p