Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part One —On Poetry
5. 1. Czesław Miłosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return 2
6. 2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czesław Miłosz) 13
7. 3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wisława Szymborska) 26
8. 4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor Notes on Wisława Szymborska 33
9. 5. The Ghost of Shakespeare in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska 41
10. 6. The Last Time We Saw Her . . . (Wisława Szymborska) 55
11. 7. Apollo and Marsyas: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert 58
12. 8. Poet of the Seventh Climate: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Bronisław Przyłuski 69
13. 9. A Canon of His Own (Vasyl Makhno) 84
14. 10. Must Poetry Be Absolutely Modern? 90
15. Part Two—On Polish Prose
16. 11. Two Unknown Soldiers (Józef Wittlin) 98
17. 12. Bruno Schulz: Mythmaker and Legend 108
18. 13. The Lifelong Passion of Jerzy Ficowski 118
19. 14. Jealousy, Sex, and Character: Michał Choromański and Otto Weininger 123
20. 15. Narrative Strategies: The Case of Andrzej Bobkowski 133
21. 16. Henryk Grynberg: His Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth 143
22. 17. Finding the Way between Globalization and Decentralization: Polish Literature after 1989 158
23. Part Three—On Russian Symbolism
24. 18. Three Great Romans in the Poetry of Valery Bryusov 166
25. 19. The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim: Dmitry Merezhkovsky 194
26. 20. The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind: Vasily Komarovsky 203
27. 21. The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The Russo-Japanese War in the Mirror of Russian Poetry 220
28. Part Four—On Writing and Exile
29. 22. My Native Realm 236
30. 23. My “Unprocessed” Holocaust 245
31. 24. March Began in June: My “Processed” Trauma 250
32. 25. The Price of Integrity 260
33. 26. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace 265
34. 27. Writing Polish in America 268
35. 28. Identity and Difference: The Power of Language 274
36. Afterword. Departures, Returns and Memory in the Collected Essays of Anna Frajlich 279
37. Bibliography 283
38. Selected Honors and Publications 287
39. Index 289