Book excerpt: ‘My trunk will be your cross’

The upheaval created by the rise of the Solidarity movement in the 1980s inspired a generation of Polish poets to explore new expressions of themes both original and traditional.

This selection offers a dark rejoinder to a , “The Linden Tree.”

It comes from “City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry,” edited and translated by Michael MikoÅ›, professor of foreign languages and literature at 51ÁÔÆæ.

Reproduced with permission from published by Slavica. © 2015 by Slavica. All rights reserved.

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