Zagajewski on Rilke
Out recently: the paperback edition of Edward Snow’s translations of Rilke, with Adam Zagajewski’s capacious introduction. From which: Maybe it’s more interesting to see Rilke’s work as not as virginal, not as ethereal, as it seems to many readers. After all, like the majority of literary modernists, he is an antimodern; one of the main […]
Writers: Adam Zagajewski
Milosz celebrations all over
The centenary of the birth of Czeslaw Milosz has festivities busting out all over, with a bumper crop of marvelous participants. In New York, a tribute at the 92nd Street Y on March 21 will include Little Star‘s dynamic duo, Adam Zagajewski and his wonderful translator Clare Cavanagh (whose Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, […]
Writers: Adam Zagajewski, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert