“There Is No Hole in Heaven”: On Jerzy Ficowski’s “Everything I Don’t Know”
Piotr Florczyk reviews the poetry collection “Everything I Don’t Know” by the late Jerzy Ficowski and translated by Jennifer Grotzm and Piotr Sommer....
Piotr Florczyk reviews the poetry collection “Everything I Don’t Know” by the late Jerzy Ficowski and translated by Jennifer Grotzm and Piotr Sommer....
Piotr Florczyk asks poet and critic William Logan about his latest book, “Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History.”...
Louise Steinman and Piotr Florczyk offer a wide-ranging and provocative discussion of the legacy of the Holocaust in Poland....
A new study of the pleasures and pitfalls confronting translingual writers....
Poet Troy Jollimore talks about repeating himself, why cinema matters, and what poets can learn from stand-up comedians....
Piotr Florczyk reflects on a brief new anthology of poetry written during the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)....
Piotr Florczyk reflects on Poland, its monuments, and its poetry of witness....
In the search for the remnants of her own family, Louise Steinman traces the many unresolved issues that still stand in the way of a sustained dialogue between Poles and Jews, a dialogue that would at last put them on the path toward true reconciliation. Steinman’s book, The Crooked Mirror, will no doubt be part of that reconciliation....
Glossy magazines full of advice on how to improve ourselves will never eradicate the primordial within us....