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Benjamin Paloff

Contributor

Benjamin Paloff

Benjamin Paloff grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was educated at Harvard (BA, MA, PhD) and at the University of Michigan (MFA), where he now teaches. He is the author of The Politics, a collection of poems, and has translated several books from Polish, including the forthcoming Lodgings: Selected Poems of Andrzej Sosnowski.

Articles by Benjamin Paloff

I Wish I Had a Master

By Julia Fiedorczuk

for one stray word / would mean the fall of kingdoms

Translated from Polish by Benjamin Paloff

Alterity

By Jacek Dehnel

There’s no such thing as comfort for unhappy men.

Translated from Polish by Benjamin Paloff

Multilingual

Old-Fashioned

By Edward Pasewicz

And then she died on us, utterly.

Translated from Polish by Benjamin Paloff

Multilingual

From “Snow White and Russian Red”

By Dorota Masłowska

She makes it look like nothing else is going on in her life, she just blows bubbles and winds them around her finger.

Translated from Polish by Benjamin Paloff

Polish Literature Embraces the Emptiness of It All, Still

By Benjamin Paloff

The argument that Poland is better off despite its broad socioeconomic upheavals, after all, sounds too much like a sales pitch, and this generation is none too fond of the product.

Translated from Polish by the author

The Rat

By Witold Gombrowicz

The Hooligan flung himself against a tree and lay in wait in a hollow, and the rat flung itself against a log and lay in wait in the log.

Translated from Polish by Benjamin Paloff