Elegy

Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski (1921-1944)

September 1942
Translated by Alex Kurczaba

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Night

to Barbara

28 March 1942
Translated by Alex Kurczaba

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Tropical dream

11 March 1941 in hospital
Translated by Alex Kurczaba

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O you, my silent sadness

1 November 1942

Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski died in the Warsaw uprising defending a house near the Wielki Theater.

Translated by Alex Kurczaba. Kurczaba is an Associate Professor of Polish language and literature at the University of Illinois-Chicago. The originals of the translated poems: "Elegia," "Sen tropikalny," "Noc," "O moj ty smutku cichy," can be found in Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski, Utwory zebrane (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie 1979).


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