[New-Poetry] 'Collected Poems' by Zbigniew Herbert

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February  25, 2007 
 
BOOK REVIEW
'Collected Poems' by Zbigniew Herbert
Practicing poetic  grace under Soviet pressure
Book Review
By Benjamin Lytal 

The Collected Poems: 1956-1998
Zbigniew HerbertTranslated from the  Polish and edited by Alissa Valles, with 
additional translations by Czeslaw  Milosz and Peter Dale Scott
Ecco: 600 pp., $34.95
 
We do not know what role Zbigniew Herbert played in the Polish resistance.  
We do know that he was active underground, beginning in 1941, when Hitler's  
forces took the city of Lwów from the Red Army, which had occupied it in 1939.  
But Herbert's extensive literary output did not address Polish affairs very  
directly. His prose explored the art of the Mediterranean, and then of the  
Netherlands, and his poetry, though profoundly one of experience, was not a  
poetry of witness.

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