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This carefully curated collection consists of 16 chapters by leading Polish and world literature scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, and, of course, Poland. An historical approach gives readers a panoramic view of Polish authors and their explicit or implicit contributions to world literature. Indeed, the volume shows how Polish authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th century to the 2018 Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, have engage...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of swimming has no beginning or end. Ever since humans glimpsed the open sea, or a pond, or a river, they have strived to reach the other shore. A swimming pool puts that goal within our reach, if only metaphorically. In the swimming pool - outdoor, indoor - we can both forget who we are and dream of becoming someone else, whic...

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This sequence of poems (taken from Florczyk's full-length collection From the Annals of Krakow, published in the USA in 2106) is based on the testimonies of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust.

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Piotr Florczyk is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was born and raised in Krak¿w, Poland, and moved to the United States at the age of sixteen. In addition to his books, he has published poems, translations, essays, and reviews in many journals. He is one of the founders of Calypso Editions, a cooperative press. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literature and Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California.