Entertainment & Arts
The lowest circle of hell.
Aug. 22, 1993
Books
The Collected Poems 1956-1998 Zbigniew Herbert Translated from the Polish and edited by Alissa Valles, with additional translations by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott Ecco: 600 pp., $34.95
Feb. 25, 2007
He fell from her knees like a ball of yarn. He unwound in a hurry and ran blindly away.
Oct. 3, 1993
ELEGY FOR THE DEPARTURE And Other Poems By Zbigniew Herbert; Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter; The Ecco Press: 132 pp., $24 : THE KING OF THE ANTS Mythological Essays By Zbigniew Herbert; Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter; The Ecco Press: 86 pp., $22
Aug. 8, 1999
Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert, translated from the Polish by Michael March and Jaroslaw Anders (Carcanet: $14.95) With Zbigniew Herbert, we are the regular summer residents, sprawled indolently across the beach, when a first-time inlander comes pounding down the sand and splashes in with a whoop of discovery that makes us regard the sea as if we too had never seen it before.
Sept. 11, 1985
What is the most specific attribute of a great poet? Legs.
Nov. 3, 1991
Poets write out of their own back yards.
Guy Payson Duffield, 88, longtime pastor of Angelus Temple and teacher at LIFE Bible College.
July 30, 1998
The former U.S. poet laureate talks about his friendship with Czeslaw Milosz, the pleasures of speaking poetry aloud and the Internet.
Oct. 30, 2011
Q&A: W.S. Merwin