Anna Frajlich (Senior Lecturer Emerita) taught Polish language and literature at Columbia University for over three decades. She is author of ten books of poetry and three bilingual editions (English, French, Italian). In 2002 she received The Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Polish Republic. Frajlich is also the recipient of literary awards from Kościelski Foundation, Turzański Foundation, and the Union of Polish Writers in Exile. Ronald Meyer is Publications Editor at the Harriman Institute. He teaches the seminar in Russian literary translation at Columbia University.

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• Table of ContentsAuthor’s PrefacePart One: On Poetry1. Czesław Miłosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return 2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czesław Miłosz)3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wisława Szymborska)4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor: Notes on Wisława Szymborska 5. The Ghost of Shakespeare in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska6. The Last Time We Saw Her . . . (Wisława Szymborska)7. Apollo and Marsyas: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert8. Poet of the Seventh Climate: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Bronisław Przyłuski9. A Canon of His Own (Vasyl Makhno)10. Must Poetry Be Absolutely Modern?Part Two: On Polish Prose11. Two Unknown Soldiers (Józef Wittlin)12. Bruno Schulz: Mythmaker and Legend13. The Lifelong Passion of Jerzy Ficowski14. Jealousy, Sex, and Character: Michał Choromański and Otto Weininger 15. Narrative Strategies: The Case of Andrzej Bobkowski      16. Henryk Grynberg: His Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth17. Finding the Way between Globalization and Decentralization: Polish Literature after 1989Part Three: On Russian Symbolist Poetry18. Three Great Romans in Valery Bryusov’s Poetry 19. The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim: Dmitry Merezhkovsky20. The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind. Vasily Komarovsky21. The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The Russo-Japanese War in the Mirror of Russian PoetryPart Four: Autobiography22. My Native Realm23. My “Unprocessed” Holocaust24. March Began in June: My “Processed” Trauma25. The Price of Integrity26. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace27. Writing Polish in America28. Identity and Difference: The Power of LanguageAfterwordDepartures, Returns, Memory: The Collected Essays of Anna FrajlichBibliographySelected Honors and Publications

Anna Frajlich (Senior Lecturer Emerita) taught Polish language and literature at Columbia University for over three decades. She is author of ten books of poetry and three bilingual editions (English, French, Italian). In 2002 she received The Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Polish Republic. Frajlich is also the recipient of literary awards from Kościelski Foundation, Turzański Foundation, and the Union of Polish Writers in Exile. Ronald Meyer is Publications Editor at the Harriman Institute. He teaches the seminar in Russian literary translation at Columbia University.

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• Table of ContentsAuthor’s PrefacePart One: On Poetry1. Czesław Miłosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return 2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czesław Miłosz)3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wisława Szymborska)4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor: Notes on Wisława Szymborska 5. The Ghost of Shakespeare in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska6. The Last Time We Saw Her . . . (Wisława Szymborska)7. Apollo and Marsyas: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert8. Poet of the Seventh Climate: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Bronisław Przyłuski9. A Canon of His Own (Vasyl Makhno)10. Must Poetry Be Absolutely Modern?Part Two: On Polish Prose11. Two Unknown Soldiers (Józef Wittlin)12. Bruno Schulz: Mythmaker and Legend13. The Lifelong Passion of Jerzy Ficowski14. Jealousy, Sex, and Character: Michał Choromański and Otto Weininger 15. Narrative Strategies: The Case of Andrzej Bobkowski      16. Henryk Grynberg: His Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth17. Finding the Way between Globalization and Decentralization: Polish Literature after 1989Part Three: On Russian Symbolist Poetry18. Three Great Romans in Valery Bryusov’s Poetry 19. The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim: Dmitry Merezhkovsky20. The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind. Vasily Komarovsky21. The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The Russo-Japanese War in the Mirror of Russian PoetryPart Four: Autobiography22. My Native Realm23. My “Unprocessed” Holocaust24. March Began in June: My “Processed” Trauma25. The Price of Integrity26. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace27. Writing Polish in America28. Identity and Difference: The Power of LanguageAfterwordDepartures, Returns, Memory: The Collected Essays of Anna FrajlichBibliographySelected Honors and Publications