Personal Histories

June 11, 2008 | This article appeared in the June 30, 2008 edition of The Nation.

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New collections by Adam Zagajewski and Julia Hartwig suggest that postwar Polish verse can't be reduced to "poetry of witness."

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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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