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Translated from the Polish by Margret Grebowicz
Published: Tue Jan 30 2018
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Born in Kraków in 1945, Ewa Lipska is one of Poland’s most recognized living poets. Since 1967 she has authored over twenty books of poems, and volumes of her selected works have appeared in thirteen languages. In the 1990s she served as cultural liaison between Poland and Austria through her role as First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in Vienna. She has received numerous awards in Poland and abroad, including two from PEN and, in 1995, the Award of the City of Kraków, where she has returned to live. (updated 8/2009)

Margret Grebowicz is a native speaker of Polish from Lódz. Her translations have appeared in Quarterly West, Literary Imagination, AGNI, Poetry International, FIELD, Two Lines, and elsewhere. She is associate professor of philosophy at Goucher College, author of numerous articles, co-editor of Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan, and editor of two critical anthologies, Gender After Lyotard. (updated 4/2011)
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