TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD. AN EVENING OF CELEBRATION OF CONTEMPORARY POLISH POETRY Herbert, Milosz, Szymborska, Zagajewski
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East Seventh Street at Third Avenue,
New York,
NY Admission: $10 for PSA Members and Students /$15 for Non-Members
A Reading of the Poems of Herbert, Milosz, Szymborska, and Zagajewski by: Clare Cavanagh Elzbieta Czyzewska Renata Gorczynski Edward Hirsch Mary Karr Wendy Lesser W.S.Merwin Robert Pinsky Omar Sangare Susan Sontag Rosanna Warren Lawrence Weschler C.K.Williams Adam Zagajewski When The New Yorker published Adam Zagajewski's poem, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" on the back page of the September 24th issue, just following the attack on the World Trade Center the response among readers was palpable. This evening celebrates the greatness of contemporary Polish poetry and its central importance in the lives of committed poetry readers all over the world for the past twenty-five years or more. An extraordinary group of distinguished and revered poets, writers, translators, and actors will read the poems of the great postwar poets, Zbigniew Herbert and Nobel Prize-winning Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, and Adam Zagajewski, heir to this compelling tradition and widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet of his generation, will be present to read from his new book, "Without End: New and Selected Poems." For more information call 212.254.9628 www.poetrysociety.org NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU 212.998.2100 Co-sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
