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Elegy for the Departureby Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0880016191 (0-88001-619-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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In Praise of the Unfinished: Selected Poemsby Julia Hartwig, Bogdana Carpenter , John CarpenterISBN 0307267202 (0-307-26720-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The King of the Ants: Mythological Essaysby Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0880016183 (0-88001-618-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King of the Ants: Mythological Essays'Book summary:Although he never quite attained the fame of his compatriots Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, the late Zbigniew Herbert was one of the giants of contemporary Polish letters--not to mention European literature at large. His witty, superbly ironical verse flourished in the face of totalitarian censorship: indeed, with its overlay of parable, allegory, and deadpan allusiveness, it seemed almost to be nourished by the ideological obstacle course of 20th-century Poland. But Herbert was an equally gifted essayist. The pieces collected in Barbarian in the Garden and Still Life with a Bridle are wickedly intelligent and unfailingly humane. And even when the author is letting loose with a satirical dart, his imagination always functions as "an instrument of compassion."
The King of the Ants combines his twin vocations. That is, these are short prose pieces, which Herbert called "mythological essays." Yet the form itself--in which he takes apart the classic myths and expertly tinkers with their innards--has the speed and epigrammatic suavity of his best poetry. Here, for example, is Herbert's take on Atlas, whom we might call the king of mythological heavy lifting:
The whole character of Atlas, his entire being, is contained in the act of carrying. This has little pathos, and moreover it is quite common. The titan reminds us of poor people who are constantly wrestling with burdens. They carry chests, bundles, boxes on their backs, they push them, or carry them behind, all the way to mysterious caves, cellars, shacks, from which they come out after a moment even more loaded, and so on to infinity.
Herbert is no less intrigued by Antaeus, who went head to head with Heracles himself in a celebrated wrestling match. On one hand, he tries to visualize the actual bout, taking his clues from accounts by Plato, Pindar, and the Renaissance miniaturist Antonio Pollaiuolo. But it's the metaphorical implications of the match that really get him going--the way it reverses our usual image of victor and vanquished. His subject, he reminds us, "had to overcome the concept, deeply rooted in us all, of what we call high and low, the elevation of the victor and the throwing of the defeated down into the dust. For every time Antaeus was lifted up, it meant death for him." In the author's hands, these musty figures become almost alarmingly contemporary--and entertaining. And while he never weighs down his essays with philosophical ballast, they do contain more than their share of casual wisdom. Like the philosophers he mentions in the title essay, Herbert too had "the not very tactful habit of teaching others how to live." --James Marcus [via]More editions of The King of the Ants: Mythological Essays:
Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry A Bilingual Anthologyby Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0930042689 (0-930042-68-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan/Michigan Slavic
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Mr. Cogitoby Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0880013818 (0-88001-381-8)
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The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland: 1918-1939by Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0295959967 (0-295-95996-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Report from the Besieged City and Other Poemsby Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0880010940 (0-88001-094-0)
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- Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems: ISBN 0192119699 (0-19-211969-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Report from the Besieged City: ISBN 0880010711 (0-88001-071-1)
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Selected Poemsby Bogdana Carpenter , Michael Herbert, John CarpenterISBN 0192118617 (0-19-211861-7)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphasby Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0880013060 (0-88001-306-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas'Book summary:In Still Life with a Bridle, poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Hervert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.
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To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essaysby Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0374528594 (0-374-52859-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays'Book summary:A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.[via]
To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, written in 1942 in the form of a letter to his friend Jerzy Andrzejewski, to brief biographical sketches and poetic prose pieces from the late 1990s, this volume presents Milosz the prose writer in all his multiple, beguiling guises. The incisive, sardonic analyst of the seductive power of communism is also the author of tender, elegiac portraits of friends famous and obscure; the witty commentator on Polish complexes writes lyrically of the California landscape. Two great themes predominate in these essays, several of which have never appeared before in English: Milosz's personal struggle to sustain his religious faith, and his unswerving allegiance to a poetry that is "on the side of man."More editions of To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays:
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