Robert Hass
Robert Hass reads new translations from the Polish of postwar poems by Czesław Miłosz. These poems come from the period (1946-1953) during which Miłosz fled from Warsaw and worked in the United States for the Polish consulate. Throughout the reading, Hass provides commentary on the unique challenges of translating Miłosz.
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Introduction
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by Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Excerpt of Polish scholar's writing about Czesław Miłosz's time in New York post-WWII
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Differs slightly from published version.
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Fuit, Aleksander. Foreword. Czesław Miłosz in Postwar America, by Ewa Kołodziejczyk. Trans. Michał Janowski. Warsaw/Berlin: De Gruyter Poland Ltd, 2020, p. xii.
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On translating Czesław Miłosz's poems from 1946-1953 with colleague David Frick
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Remarks on Miłosz's use of meter and rhyme in Polish and impromptu recitation of "Parable of a Poppy Seed"
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Excerpt from "Child of Europe"
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Uncollected.
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Excerpt from "To Jonathan Swift"
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"The Song of a Bird on the Banks of the Potomac"
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Excerpt from "Movies in Central Park for Juliusz Kronski in Paris"
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"A Little Negro Girl Playing Chopin"
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Excerpts from "Treatise on Morals"
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