16 min

Episode 102: ”I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this...‪”‬ Take this poem

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Keith Hansen brings us poems by two Polish poets who lived upfront with human suffering and political upheaval. What will their poetic "stare" find to praise?
 
Adam Zagajewski's "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" and "Boogie-Woogie"
Czeslaw Milosz's "The Blacksmith Shop" 
 

Keith Hansen brings us poems by two Polish poets who lived upfront with human suffering and political upheaval. What will their poetic "stare" find to praise?
 
Adam Zagajewski's "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" and "Boogie-Woogie"
Czeslaw Milosz's "The Blacksmith Shop" 
 

16 min