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Stanisław Barańczak
Portrait of Stanisław Barańczak

Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, editor, and translator, as well as, for nearly twenty years until his retirement, a lecturer at Harvard University. He translated, among others, Wislawa Szymborska (with Clare Cavanagh) and Jan Kochanowski (with Seamus Heaney) into English and published more than forty volumes of English poetry in Polish translation.

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Since Just This World of Pain
by Stanisław Barańczak
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
AGNI 52 Print Only
Poetry
Spiderweb
by Stanisław Barańczak
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
AGNI 52 Illness Nature Violence

AGNI has published the following translations:

Poetry
Sky
by Wisława Szymborska
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
AGNI 39 Print Only
Poetry
In Heraclitus’s River
by Wisława Szymborska
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
AGNI 38 Print Only
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