“Nowa Fala”-The New Wave in Polish Poetry - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E4

“Nowa Fala”-The New Wave in Polish Poetry with Katarzyna Zechenter
The New Wave in Polish poetry or Nowa Fala describes a generation of poets mostly born around the end of the Second World War who became active in the political upheavals in Poland in 1968 and were prominent voices in the 1970s, through the Solidarity era, and beyond. Unlike the avantgarde movements of the interwar period, they did not form around an aesthetic manifesto written by a charismatic leader, and were not such a tightly defined group, but they were motivated by common ethical and political concerns around truth, censorship, freedom of speech, and individual freedoms in general.
In this episode we offer an outline of the period and explore some of the major poets of the era, focusing on Stanisław Barańczak, Ryszard Krynicki, Ewa Lipska, Adam Zagajewski, mentioning some others along the way, such as Julian Kornhauser, Bronisław Maj, and others. Our guest offers some personal reflections on literary life during this period when she was a student, and reads one of her own recent poems.
Learn more about this episode, and see the biography of the guest on the Polish Cultural Institute New York's website. The linked page includes a bibliography of works by the New Wave poets and history of the movement:
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