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       Continued

       Wesleyan Poetry

       Piotr Sommer

      Continued

      Published by Wesleyan University Press,

      Middletown, CT 06459

      www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2005 by Piotr Sommer All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      Library of Congress

      Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Sommer, Piotr, 1948–

      [Poems. English. Selections]

      Continued / Piotr Sommer.

      p. cm. — (Wesleyan poetry)

      ISBN 0-8195-6767-1 (cloth : alk. paper)

      — ISBN 0-8195-6768-x (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Sommer, Piotr, 1948—Translations

      into English. I. Title. II. Series

      PG7178.058A2 2005

      891.8′517—dc22 2004061205

      The publisher gratefully acknowledges the

      cooperation of Bloodaxe Books, publishers

      of the U.K. edition of this book.

      Translated by

      Halina Janod

      &

      Ed Adams

      Jarosław Anders

      John Ashbery

      Edward Carey

      Chad Chmielowicz

      Douglas Dunn

      D. J. Enright

      Michael Kasper

      W. Martin

      Charles Mignon

      Tadeusz Pióro

      Mark Slobin

      Elżbieta Volkmer

       Contents

       Acknowledgments

       Foreword by August Kleinzahler

       From Shepherd’s Song / Piosenka pasterska (1999)

       Morning on Earth

       Yesterday

       Visibility

       Municipal Services

       Continued

       i.m. Milton Hindus

       Short Version

       Tomorrow

       Shepherd’s Song

       From elsewhere

       Sometimes, Yes

       From Lyric Factor and Other Poems / Czynnik liryczny i inne wiersze (1988)

       Indiscretions

       Candle

       Amnesia

       Station Lights

       Landscape with Branch

       Transparencies

       Innocence

       Believe me

       Home and Night

       Guesswork

       Days of the Week

       Travel Permit, Round Trip

       Leaves and Comes Back

       Medicine

       According to Brecht

       A Certain Tree in Powązki Cemetery

       Fragile

       Don’t Sleep, Take Notes

       Third State

       Liberation, in Language

       Landscape with Wind

       Worldliness

       Neolith

       Talkativeness

       Grammar

       Ah, Continuity

       Lighter, Darker

       Proofs

       Apolitical Poem