{"id":253426,"date":"2007-07-27T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T19:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/07\/27\/polish-poetry-in-the-ny-times\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:58","slug":"polish-poetry-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/07\/27\/polish-poetry-in-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Poetry in the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat surprisingly, this weekend&#8217;s <i>New York Times Book Review<\/i> has a full-length review of Zbigniew Herbert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/29\/books\/review\/Orr-t.html?8bu&#38;emc=bu\"><i>Collected Poems<\/i><\/a>, which was a <a href=\"http:\/\/readingtheworld.org\/ecco.html\">RTW<\/a> book this year.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t disagree with David Orr&#8217;s opening sentiment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>. . . it\u2019s impossible to know which country has the best writers, let alone the best poets. Even so, if cash money were on the line, you\u2019d find few critics willing to bet against Poland. Since 1980, the Poles have two Nobel Prize-winning poets, 34 pages in the \u201cVintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry\u201d (11 better than France, a country with 25 million more people) and enough top-flight artists to populate dozens of American creative writing departments, probably improving many of them in the process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat surprisingly, this weekend&#8217;s New York Times Book Review has a full-length review of Zbigniew Herbert&#8217;s Collected Poems, which was a RTW book this year. And I can&#8217;t disagree with David Orr&#8217;s opening sentiment: . . . it\u2019s impossible to know which country has the best writers, let alone the best poets. Even so, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2386,2376,1646,606],"class_list":["post-253426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-new-york-times-book-review","tag-polish-literature","tag-review","tag-zbigniew-herbert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328856,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253426\/revisions\/328856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}