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"Julian Kornhauser writes of "the miracle of the pillow with four corners," a button "deprived of its thread," a "piece of glass" flecked with blood -- the luminous things of the world that reflect with haunting precision our precarious relationship to the "expenses and losses" of beauty. Piotr Florczyk introduces American readers to one of Poland's most significant contemporary poets in translations that bring alive Kornhauser's lines with a thrilling immediacy." - Michael Collier
Julian Kornhauser
Julian Kornhauser, born in 1946 in Gliwice, is a Polish poet, prose writer, literary critic, essayist, translator, and professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures at the Jagiellonian University. One of the most prominent representatives of the New Wave or Generation '68 literary movement, he was active in underground political activities during the Communist period and signed the "Letter of 59" against changes to the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland that would see the country align closer with USSR. He lives in Kraków. Piotr Florczyk's most recent books are East & West, a volume of poems, and two volumes of translations, My People & Other Poems by Wojciech Bonowicz, and Building the Barricade by Anna Swirszczynska. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California.
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Piotr Florczyk
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Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning poet, translator, and critic. He teaches global literary studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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