For anyone interested in Polish poetry, Bogdana Carpenter's Monumenta Polonica is the perfect introductory volume. This bilingual anthology spans four centuries of Polish literature, from the 14th century to the 18th century, introducing readers to poetry from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the B...
I believe I read some poems from this collection when I was an undergrad (and perhaps again in my MFA program) and loved them. I've always liked persona poems and like writing them myself. It gives poetry an element of fiction and gets readers away a bit from the poet-speaker connection. I'd compa...
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