Adam Zagajewski - March 8, 1989

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski reads from Tremor (1985) and Solidarity, Solitude (1990). He also reads early drafts of translations of poems that would go on to be collected in Canvas (1991); most differ from those that appear in the published version of the book (translated by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams).

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Introduction
Description

by Lois Shelton

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"Vacation"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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"Electric Elegy"
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Differs from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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"The Bells"
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Differs from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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"Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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"Without Shape"
Description

Published version bears the title "Without Form." Differs from published version.

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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"Every Hour on the Hour"
Description

Uncollected in English translation; translated by Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry. 

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"That Day"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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"Moses"
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Differs from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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"After the End of the World"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Solidarity, Solitude: Essays. Trans. Lillian Vallee. New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.

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"Definition"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Solidarity, Solitude: Essays. Trans. Lillian Vallee. New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.

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"Late Beethoven"
Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.

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"Franz Schubert: A Press Conference"
Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.

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"In the Beauty Created by Others"
Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.

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"Poems on Poland"
Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.

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"My Masters"
Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.

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"To Go to Lvov"
Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.

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"Tego dnia"
Description

Read in Polish.

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"Cruel"
Description

Differs slightly from published verison. 

Citation

Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.

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Lois Shelton
Adam Zagajewski
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