Try To Praise the Mutilated World
Wednesday, March 13th, 2002
The Poetry Society of America with The New York Institute for the Humanities and the Polish Cultural Institute present:
Try To Praise the Mutilated World
An Evening in Celebration of Contemporary Polish Poetry
7:30 P.M.
at The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East Seventh Street at Third Avenue
A Reading of the Poems of Herbert, Milosz, Szymborska, and Zagajewski
by
Clare Cavanagh (Translator of Szymborska and Zagajewski)
Elzbieta Czyzewska (Renowned Polish actress)
Renata Gorczynski (Translator of Milosz and Zagajewski)
Edward Hirsch (Poet and essayist)
Mary Karr (Poet and memoirist)
Wendy Lesser (Author and editor of "The Threepenny Review")
W.S.Merwin (Poet)
Robert Pinsky (Poet and former U.S.Poet Laureate)
Omar Sangare (Celebrated Polish actor)
Susan Sontag (Internationally acclaimed novelist and essayist)
Rosanna Warren (Poet)
Lawrence Weschler (New Yorker writer and Director, New York Institute of the
Humanities)
C.K.Williams (Poet)
and
Adam Zagajewski, who will read from his new collection, "Without End: New
and Selected Poems"
Description:
This evening celebrates the greatness of contemporary Polish poetry and its
central importance in the lives of committed poetry readers all over the
world.
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 Winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa
Szymborska. 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."
The eventÃs title is taken from Adam Zagajewski's poem, "Try to Praise the
Mutilated World," which had such an enormous impact when it was published on
the back page of the September 24th issue of The New Yorker, just following
the attack on the World Trade Center.
Admission is $15/ $10 Students
For more information:
The Poetry Society of America at 212-254-9628
The Polish Cultural Institute
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
212-998-2100
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