In Praise of the Unfinished: Selected Poems

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Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as “the grande dame of Polish poetry” and named “one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century” by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her native Poland. With this career-spanning collection, we finally have a book of her work in English.
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Published March 4th 2008 by Knopf

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I think this is when I began to dig Slavic poetry.

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