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By Joanna Trzeciak Featured Art: New York Sky Line, Dark Buildings by Childe Hassam I got into translation early in life, but instead of playing the field I have tended to go steady and stay with o…

By Joanna Trzeciak Featured Art: New York Sky Line, Dark Buildings by Childe Hassam I got into translation early in life, but instead of playing the field I have tended to go steady and stay with one poet for a long time. My first was Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish poet whom I have translated since the early nineties. Szymborska’s poetry, rife with wit, graceful and deeply humane, has earned her the Nobel Prize, a permanent place in the pantheon of poetry, and admirers such as Woody Allen. Her response to the world is rendered in one of her poems as one of “rapture and despair.” In the 2002 coll

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