Elegy for the Departure

by Zbigniew Herbert

Book Overview

Available for the first time in English, Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems is an important collection from the late Zbigniew Herbert. Translated from the Polish by award-winning translators John and Bogdana Carpenter, these sixty-eight verse and prose poems span forty years of Herbert's incredible life and work. The pieces are organized chronologically from 1950 to 1990, with an emphasis on the writer's early and late poems.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880016191
• ISBN13: 9780880016193
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"