POLISH LITERATURE
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Janusz A. Ihnatowicz (1929 - )
Displeasure. London: Poets and Painters Press. 1975.
8 Poems. The Polish Review 48.4 (Autumn 2003). In Polish and English.

"The Housemaid Returns from Market." 485.
"Lament." 484.
"The Old Canon at High Mass." 484-485.
"One Day in the Life of a Dog on a Chain." 485.
"Paradise Lost." 483.
"A Song for the Ugly." 484.
"To Be Like a Child." 483.
"Winter." 485.

Lech Isakiewicz (1943 - )
"Preparations for a Journey." Trans. Sylvester Domański. The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection. Ed. Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1978. 108-109.

Wacław Iwaniuk (1912- 2001)
2 Poems. In: Mieczysław Giergielewicz, "Polish Exile Poetry," Queens Slavic Papers, vol. 1. Ed. Thomas E. Bird and others. Flushing, NY: Queens College Press, 1973. In English and Polish.

"Don't Touch Me, I'm Full of Snakes!" Trans. not identified. 48.
"From the Height of the Tenth Floor." Trans. not identified. 47.

"Elegy in a Toronto Cemetery Accompanied by Some Words on Dying": fragment. Trans. Jagna Boraks and John Robert Colombo. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 158.

Renata Jabłońska (1935 - )
"Time in Suspension." Trans. not identified. Czas Kultury.

Marian Jachimowicz (1906-1999)
2 Poems. Trans. Iwona Gleb. The New Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Collection. Ed. Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1978.

"Echo." 16-17.
"Slopes." 16-17.

Wojciech Jagielski (1960 - )
2 Pieces. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Instytut Książki.

"A Good Place to Die."
"Praying for Rain."

"Zaire - Rwanda: Crime and Punishment." Trans. not identified. Donajski's Digital Gallery.

>Marcin Jagodziński (1971 - )
"Third Rail." Trans. Frank L. Vigoda. Perihelion. 5.1 (2005).

Jan Janiak (1941- )
Untitled ("I don't know . . ."). Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 159.

Anna Janko (1957 - )
2 Poems. Trans. not identified [Regina Grol?]. The Dirty Goat. 7(1995). [Click on the highlighted text under Anna Janko's name at the bottom of the page to access the poems.]

"At the Threshold Which Remained."
"When Autumn's Home, Close the Shutters."

5 Works. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.

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

"The Alphabet." 152-153.
"At the Threshold Which Remained." 146-147.
"That Good Old Woman." 150-151.
"A Tryptych with the Universe." 142-145.
"When Autumn's Home, Close the Shutters." 148-149.

Grzegorz Janusz (1970 - )
Essence ; excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.

Jerzy Jarniewicz (1958 - )
3 Poems. Trans. Zoe Skoulding. Edinburgh Review. Special issue: "Made in Poland: New Writing from Poland." 121 (2007).

"Generation Relay." 54.
"Nansen Passport." 53.
"Two and Three Zeros." 52.

5 Poems. Przekładaniec Special Issue: Contemporary Polish Writing. 2001.

"Covering Your Traces." Trans. David Malcolm. Brindin Press. Text in Polish and English.

Tomasz Jastrun (1950 - )
3 Poems from On the Crossroads from Asia and Europe. Trans. Daniel Bourne. Artful Dodge.

"Afghanistan."
"Last Supper."
"Scrap."

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

"Hat." Trans. Daniel Bourne. 484.
"The Polish Knot." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 483.
"Scrap." Trans. Daniel Bourne. 483.
"The Seed." Trans. Michael March and Jarosław Anders. 482.

"The Green Banner." Trans. Adam A. Zych and Andrzej Diniejko. The Auschwitz Poems. Ed. Adam A. Zych. Oświecim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1999. 165.

On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe. Trans. Daniel Bourne. Salmon Run Publishers. 1999.

Krzysztof Jaworski (1966 - )
"I Used to be a Slender Guy." Trans. Piotr Szymor and Rod Mengham. Jacket 29 (Apr. 2006).

Konstanty A. Jeleński (1922-1987)
"Avant-garde and Revolution." Trans. Michael Kott with Tara McKelvey. Four Decades of Polish Essays. Ed. Jan Kott. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 1990. 115-129.

Aleksander Jurewicz (aka "jota," O [Olek] Łapian, Oleg Kazanow, AJ) (1952 - )
2 Pieces. Instytut Książki.

Ashes and Wind: excerpt. Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
A True Ballad about Love: excerpt. Trans. William Martin.

8 Poems. Trans. Donald Pirie. Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry.

"1952."
"An Application for an Extension of Life."
"Clouds over Lida."
"Haemoglobin."
"The Interiors of our Homes."
"Lida."
"Not in Time."
"Suddenly."

Lida: excerpts. Trans. Ela Kotkowska-Atkinson. Chicago Review 46.3-4 Special Issue on New Polish Writing. (Fall 2000): 150-162.

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POLISH LITERATUREINENGLISH TRANSLATION

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AUTHORS: I and J

KEY TO SYMBOLS USED IN ENTRIES

POLISH LITERATURE
IN
ENGLISH TRANSLATION

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

AUTHORS: I and J