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Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature<\/strong> is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host David A. Goldfarb<\/strong> will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature series<\/a><\/strong> and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryszard Krynicki<\/strong> (b. 1943) is a poet, translator, and publisher known for his precision and uncanny efficiency in the use of language that conveys a complex range of thought in few words and simple forms. He was born during the war in a Nazi labor camp in Sankt Valentin, Austria, and the circumstances of his birth in Austria to Polish parents from territory that is now Ukraine, relocated after World War II to the \u201crecovered territories\u201d reclaimed by Poland from Germany. He was one of the leading figures of the \u201cNew Wave\u201d of the 1960s that included such poets as Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak, Julian Kornhauser, Ewa Lipska, and Adam Zagajewski (see \u201cEncounters\u201d S3E4\u2014\u201cNowa Fala<\/a>\u201d), and is considered part of the Generation of \u201968 that formed an opposition to Communism in Poland. During the pre-Solidarity years, he was on the editorial board of the underground journal Zapis<\/em>, and published abroad in Zeszyty Literackie<\/em> (Paris) and Puls<\/em> (London). He spent many years in Pozna\u0144, where he and his wife, Krystyna founded the publishing house, A5, and lives today in Krak\u00f3w.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode we discuss the questions of identity raised in Krynicki\u2019s poetry. We look at his attention to animals and small things and the influence of haiku master, Kobayashi Issa. Clare Cavanagh discusses her direct experience of working with Krynicki as a translator, and the many challenges that Krynicki\u2019s poetry presents to anyone who endeavors to translate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ryszard Krynicki. Citizen R.K. Does Not Live<\/em>. Selected with an introduction by Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak. Tr. Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak & Clare Cavanagh, John Carpenter, Gra\u017cyna Drabik, Antony Graham, Magnus Kry\u0144ski & Robert A. Maguire, Frank Kujawinski, and Bogus\u0142aw Rostworowski. Forest Grove, Oregon: Mr. Cogito Press, 1985. (Best found at research libraries or through interlibrary loan.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryszard Krynicki. Magnetic Point<\/a>.<\/em> Tr. Clare Cavanagh. New York: New Directions, 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryszard Krynicki. Our Life Grows<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Alissa Valles. Afterword by Adam Michnik. New York: NYRB\/Poets, 2018. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clare Cavanagh <\/strong>is Frances Hooper Professor and of Arts and Humanities and\u00a0Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.\u00a0 Her book, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West<\/em>\u00a0received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for 2010.\u00a0 She received a 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and a 2019 ZAIKS Award from the Polish Writers Union for her many volumes of Polish poetry in translation, including the work of Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski, and Ryszard Krynicki. Other honors include membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Harold Langdon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets; the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award; the MLA William Riley Parker Award; and fellowships from the NEH and Guggenheim Foundation.\u00a0She recently co-translated Miron Bia\u0142oszewski, Oho: Selected Poetry and Prose<\/em> with Micha\u0142 Rusinek and Alissa Valles (forthcoming, New York Review Books, 2025). She is currently working on an authorized biography of Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz (under contract, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He was one of the leading figures of the \u201cNew Wave\u201d of the 1960s that included such poets as Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak, Julian Kornhauser, Ewa Lipska, and Adam Zagajewski (see \u201cEncounters\u201d S3E4\u2014\u201cNowa Fala\u201d), and is considered part of the Generation of \u201968 that formed an opposition to Communism in Poland. During the pre-Solidarity years, he was on the editorial board of the underground journal Zapis, and published abroad in Zeszyty Literackie (Paris) and Puls (London). He spent many years in Pozna\u0144, where he and his wife, Krystyna founded the publishing house, A5, and lives today in Krak\u00f3w.\nIn this episode we discuss the questions of identity raised in Krynicki\u2019s poetry. We look at his attention to animals and small things and the influence of haiku master, Kobayashi Issa. Clare Cavanagh discusses her direct experience of working with Krynicki as a translator, and the many challenges that Krynicki\u2019s poetry presents to anyone who endeavors to translate it.\nRyszard Krynicki in English Translation:\nRyszard Krynicki. Citizen R.K. Does Not Live. Selected with an introduction by Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak. Tr. Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak & Clare Cavanagh, John Carpenter, Gra\u017cyna Drabik, Antony Graham, Magnus Kry\u0144ski & Robert A. Maguire, Frank Kujawinski, and Bogus\u0142aw Rostworowski. Forest Grove, Oregon: Mr. Cogito Press, 1985. (Best found at research libraries or through interlibrary loan.)\nRyszard Krynicki. Magnetic Point. Tr. Clare Cavanagh. New York: New Directions, 2017. \nRyszard Krynicki. Our Life Grows. Tr. Alissa Valles. Afterword by Adam Michnik. New York: NYRB\/Poets, 2018. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\nClare Cavanagh is Frances Hooper Professor and of Arts and Humanities and\u00a0Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.\u00a0 Her book, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West\u00a0received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for 2010.\u00a0 She received a 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and a 2019 ZAIKS Award from the Polish Writers Union for her many volumes of Polish poetry in translation, including the work of Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski, and Ryszard Krynicki. Other honors include membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Harold Langdon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets; the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award; the MLA William Riley Parker Award; and fellowships from the NEH and Guggenheim Foundation.\u00a0She recently co-translated Miron Bia\u0142oszewski, Oho: Selected Poetry and Prose with Micha\u0142 Rusinek and Alissa Valles (forthcoming, New York Review Books, 2025). She is currently working on an authorized biography of Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz (under contract, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).\nDavid A. Goldfarb, Host & ProducerBartek Remisko, Curator and Executive ProducerNatalia Iyudin, Producer\nLead image: Ryszard_Krynicki, photo by \u00a9 Mariusz_KubikGuest photo: Clare Cavanagh, NYU, 2011 by \u00a9 David A. 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