born in transit / I came upon on the place of deathSo Ryszard Krynicki begins the early lyric that gave his 1969 debut volume Act of Birth its title (a poem which ends: “I live / in the place of death
The first uncensored, English-language translation of a Polish dissident poet's brave act of witness in post-World-War-II Europe.The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria
