Title: Elegy for the departure and other poems
Description: Available for the first time in English, Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems is an important collection from the late Zbigniew Herbert. Translated from the Polish by award-winning translators John and Bogdana Carpenter, these sixty-eight verse and prose poems span forty years of Herbert's life and work. The pieces are organized chronologically from 1950 to 1990, with an emphasis on the writer's early and late poems.
Subjects: Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
People: Zbigniew Herbert