Polish Literature in English Translation: Contemporary Authors Beginning with B

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Stanisław Barańczak (1946 - )
2 Poems. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000).

"She Cried That Night, But Not for Him to Hear." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. 97.
"That Mozart Aria." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. 96.

3 Poems. Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. Ed. Carolyn Forché. Norton. 1993.

"December 14, 1979: A Poetry Reading." Trans. Magnus Jan Krynski. 480-481.
"February 8, 1980: And No One Has Warned Me." Trans. Magnus Jan Krynski. 481-482.
"If China." Trans. Magnus Jan Krynski. 480.

5 Poems. Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology. 3rd. ed. Ed. Czesław Miłosz. University of California Press. 1983.

"The Humane Conditions." Trans. Magnus Jan Krynski and Robert A. Maguire. 184-185.
"If Porcelain, Then Only the Kind." Trans. Frank Kujawinski. 187.
"If You Have to Scream, Please Do It Quietly." Trans. Frank Kujawinski. 184.
"Never Really." Trans. Magnus Jan Krynski and Robert A. Maguire. 185.
"Those Men, So Powerful." Trans. Magnus Jan Krynski and Robert A. Maguire. 186-187.

7 Poems. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

"After Gloria Was Gone."
"Along with the Dust."
"Don't Use the Word 'Exile'."
"A Second Nature."
"Setting the Hand Brake."
"The Three Magi."
"To Grażyna."

Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1990.

"Empty." Trans. Jolanta Raczko and Danuta Gabryś. The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection. Ed. Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1978. 102-103.

"The Longevity of Butchers." Trans. Lillian Vallee Periphery 1.1 (April 1995).

"Or the Current Resident." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh Lingo 7 (Autumn 1997).

"Polish Poetry." The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1993. 954-960.

"The Revenge of the Mortal Hand." Polish Writers on Writing. Ed. Adam Zagajewski. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press. 2007. 241-247.

"A Special Time." Trans. Magnus Jan Kryński. The Polish Review 23.1 (Winter 1978): 76-77. br>

"Spiderweb." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. AGNI 52 (2000).

"Stanislaw Baranczak and the Generation of '68 in Poland: An Interview": excerpt. Philip Fried. The Manhattan Review 2.1.

"These Words." Trans. not identified. The Manhattan Review 2.1.

"The Three Magi." The Gospels in Our Image: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry Based on Biblical Texts. Ed. David Curzon. Harcourt. 1995.

"Tongue-tied Eloquence: Notes on Exile, Language, and Writing." Four Decades of Polish Essays. Ed. Jan Kott. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 1990. 337-348.

"Voice Coaching." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 7.2 (Summer 1999). 112-114.

"Where Did I Wake Up." Trans. Clare Cavanagh. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature (March 2004).

Zofia Beszczyńska (1951 - )
10 Poems. Trans. not identified. Zofia Beszczyńska.

"autumn: time of water . . ." From Island of Lights.
"the dream is the tree of reality . . ." From Island of Lights.
"he squatted on my windowsill yet did not allow . . ." From Island of Lights.
"I am reading . . ." From Magic Places.
"I am the rain which will open everything . . ." From Island of Lights.
"I shut myself off from people I open . . ." From Island of Lights.
"I wanted you to go away and all are gone . . ." From Island of Lights.
"I was told the town was magic . . ." From Magic Places.
"the soul of my cat . . ." From Island of Lights.
"they make believe they are sleeping . . ." From Island of Lights.

Halina Birenbaum (1929 - )
9 Poems. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999.

"The First Day of January 1945-1985." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. 30-31.
"Fruma." 34-36.
"I Did Not Believe." Trans. June Friedman. 33-34.
"In This Place." Trans. June Friedman. 39.
"It's No Use Dreaming." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. 30.
"I Wanted." Trans. June Friedman. 36-37.
"Long Cottages." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. 31-32.
"'My Happy Poem'." Trans. June Friedman. 30.
"There Is My Soul." Trans. June Friedman. 37-38.
"A Tourist Among Tombs." Trans. June Friedman. 32.

10 Works. Zwoje: The Scrolls.

"My life began from its end." Trans. Andrew Kobos. Also found at the end of "Life as Hope."
"A Life As Hope: The Story of My Holocaust Years." Trans. Halina Birenbaum, with June Friedman, Ada Holtzman, and Andrew Kobos.
"A Night in May." Trans. Andrew Kobos. [Scroll down the page to read the text.]
Poetry on the Shoah. Trans. Andrew M. Kobos.
- "It Was Only the Beginning."
- "Mother, Do You See Me?"
- "My Brother Hilek."
- "My Father."
- "`The Pianist.'"
- "She Waited for Me."
- "The Trees Are Silent."

"Achmed." Trans. William Brand. Dialogue: Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue.

Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror. Trans. David Welsh, Elaine Morton, Dosia Dyrcz-Freeman. M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

"Life as Hope." Trans. Josef Holender and Andres M. Kobos. Holocaust Survivors' Network.

Sounds of a Guilty Silence: Selected Poems. Trans. June Friedman. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Centrum Dialogu. 1997. [Scroll down the page past the poem "Tears" to reach the table of contents of the book, from which the poems can be accessed.]

Marzena Broda (1966 - )
5 Poems. Trans. Regina Grol. Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry. Ed. Regina Grol. Host Publications. 1996. Polish and English.

"And yet, those who believed . . ." 66-67.
"Come back to me . . ." from the cycle "Poems for Rosaria." 70-71.
"More than the earth . . ." 68-69.
"A Red Brick House." 64-65.
"Words." 72-73.

9 Poems. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

"Close my eyes, still my voice . . ." Trans. Donald Pirie.
"House of Red Brick." Trans. Donald Pirie.
"Hymn." Trans. Donald Pirie.
"In a Provincial Cinema." Trans. Ela Kotkowska Atkinson.
"A Motif from Brodsky." Trans. Donald Pirie.
"Oh, My Love . . ." Trans. Donald Pirie.
"To wake up before the sunrise . . ." Trans. Donald Pirie.
"Watery World." Trans. Donald Pirie.
"What Version of Truth Will Survive?" Trans. Donald Pirie.

"In a Provincial Cinema." Trans. Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000): 239.

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