Laments
Subtitle: A Bilingual Edition
Contributors: Stanislaw Baranczak (Translator); Seamus Heaney (Translator)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: September 30, 1995
Language: eng; pol
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780374182908
Description: Jan Kochanowski is one of the great Polish poets of the sixteenth century. Because of its intimate and domestic nature, this poignant series of poems on the death of Kochanowski's young daughter was a radical and rebellious departure from the literary conventions of his day. But it is this same intimacy that now gives Laments a startling potency and realism for contemporary readers. The poems express a candid grief, a profound angst, and an undeniably modern sense of humiliation and religious doubt.