Poetry From the September 2007 issue: Our Sonnets from the Portugese

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Ewa LipskaEwa Lipska

Ewa Lipska was born in Kraków in the Polish People's Republic in 1945. She studied painting and art history at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and has published nineteen volumes of poetry since 1967. Much of her work emerges out of the events of World War II, and interrogates social and political issues with a skeptical surrealism. Her most recent volumes—1999, Sklepy Zoologiczne (Pet Shops), Ja (I), Gdzie Indziej (Somewhere Else), and Drzazga (Splinter, 2006)—are influenced in particular by her friendships with Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal.

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Translated from PolishPolish by Robin DavidsonRobin Davidson and by Ewa Elżbieta NowakowskaEwa Elżbieta Nowakowska

Robin Davidson is a poet, translator, and assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Houston, Downtown. In 2003-4 she served as Fulbright professor of American literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her poems and translations have appeared in such American literary journals as AGNI, The Paris Review, 91st Meridian, and Literary Imagination.

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Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska is a poet and translator living and teaching in Kraków, Poland. She is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University's Institute of English Philology. Her poems were recently selected by Adam Zagajewski to be featured in Zeszyty Literackie as the work of one of Kraków's emerging younger poets.

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