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My Dinner With Aleksander

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In 1964 an important if somewhat obscure Polish writer and public intellectual named Aleksander Wat arrived at the University of California, Berkeley, and began the work that would eventually bec

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Benjamin Paloff
Benjamin Paloff, a poetry editor at Boston Review, teaches at the University of Michigan. His most recent translation...

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