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Andrzej Sosnowski

Contributor

Andrzej Sosnowski

Andrzej Sosnowski (b.1959, Warsaw) is a poet, translator and essayist, as well a lecturer in American literature at Warsaw University and an editor at the monthly Literatura na Swiecie. He has published eight collections of poetry as well as translations of Ezra Pound, John Ashbery, Jane Bowles, Ronald Firbank and others. He has been the recipient of several important prizes and has also been nominated for the NIKE Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Poland.

Articles by Andrzej Sosnowski

On the Hoof
By Andrzej Sosnowski
The question about this fact-free life brimmingwith great notions is, can you live up to it?At dusk the megaphones get all confidentialin the words of mountains the sun never scales.In the rising murmur…
Translated from Polish by Rod Mengham
Closer
By Andrzej Sosnowski
Remember the very first time you did ittough wasn’t the word. Turning the key, a suddenboardful of lights and music swelling behindour backs and acts of attention, you’d thinkthe clothes would…
Translated from Polish by Rod Mengham