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Benjamin Paloff

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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. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Program, he is a poetry editor at the Boston Review.

Articles by Benjamin Paloff

Old-Fashioned
By Edward Pasewicz
And then she died on us, utterly. The leg dead, the foot rough. The bend of the knee glows with emptiness. And the belly’s warmth turns to ash, a black sachet filled with down. Even the cigarette,…
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