Our masthead describes us as an “international journal of literature, culture, and the arts.” A lofty claim, perhaps, but a look at what we have put together for you in this first issue of the year may well bear it out.
We celebrate the “international” directly with a trio of works centering on Polish poetry. Mark Rudman’s essay on the prose and poetry of Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz is followed by Joanna Trzeciak’s new translation of three of Nobelist Wislawa Szymborska’s poems. And John Carpenter reviews books of poetry by Milosz, Szymborska, and a third Polish poet, Anna Swir.
