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Winter 1998 • Vol. XX No. 1 • Editor's Notes |

Editor’s Notes

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.

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David H. Lynn is the editor emeritus of The Kenyon Review, a professor of English, and special assistant to the president of the college. He was the editor of the Review from 1994 to 2020. As an author, he received a 2016 O. Henry Award for "Divergence." His latest collection, Children of God: New & Selected Stories, was published in 2019 by Braddock Avenue Books.

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