Selected Poems: The Weight of the Body

A brilliant Polish poet, essayist and translator who has lived in the United States since 1981, Stanislaw Baranczak is a distinctive voice of great range - from satire to elegy, from farce to lyric. This is his first full-length poetry collection to be published in the United States, and includes a new essay written especially for this volume. These trenchant poems evoke the difficulty of life in Poland and the sadness of exile. These extraordinary poems, made even more timely by the vibrant stirrings of the Polish electorate, will provoke, delight and compel.