Books by Zbigniew Herbert and Complete Book Reviews

Zbigniew Herbert, Author, Bogdana Carpenter, Translator, John Carpenter, Translator HarperCollins Publishers $22 (85p) ISBN 978-0-88001-618-6
Employing a Borgesian pedant-narrator in these delightful ""mythological essays,"" acclaimed Polish poet Herbert (Elegy for the Departure; Barbarian in the Garden) reconstructs classical myths, drawing on conflicting sources and embellishing as he...
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Zbigniew Herbert, Author, John Carpenter, Translator, Bogdana Carpenter, Translator Ecco $24 (144p) ISBN 978-0-88001-619-3
Many consider Herbert's work the equal of his fellow Polish poets Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz, nobel laureates both; his death this past summer sadly precludes his joining them. Although his more familiar poems couch their approach to the...
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Zbigniew Herbert, Author, Alissa Valles, Editor, Czeslaw Milosz, Translator , trans. from the Polish by Alissa Valles. Ecco $34.95 (600p) ISBN 978-0-06-078390-7
Herbert (1924–1998) lived to witness his hometown of Lwów, Poland, occupied by the Soviets in 1939, the Nazis in 1941, and the Soviets again in 1944. This exposure to systematic and violent oppression awakened in Herbert a protective...
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Zbigniew Herbert, edited and trans. from the Polish by Alissa Valles. Ecco, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-288319-3
This spectacular compendium from Polish poet Herbert (1924–1998) consists of writing previously unseen or only available in periodicals. As the introduction notes, many of the poems were not collected elsewhere to avoid causing political...
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