Postwar currents: Julian Tuwim and the evolution of Polish poetic culture -- Intonation in exile: Czeslaw Miłosz's English translations -- Home literary salons: visiting Miron Białoszewski and Wisława Szymborska -- Taped farewells: elegiac recordings by Aleksander Wat, Zbigniew Herbert, Anna Kamieńska, and Anna Swir -- Unbeautiful readings: Tadeusz Różewicz against Julian Przyboś.
Summary:
"The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, and Zbigniew Herbert. Analyzing their singular performance styles, Aleksandra Kremer argues that twentieth-century Polish artists developed new aesthetics of reading and novel concepts of the poetic self"-- Provided by publisher.
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