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Born in October 29, 1924 / Died in July 28, 1998 / Poland / Polish

Bibliography

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IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

  • Selected Poems,translated from the original Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott, Penguin (Baltimore, MD), 1968, Ecco Press (New York City), 1986.
  • Pan Cogito, Czytelnik, 1974, translation by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter published as Mr. Cogito,Ecco Press, 1994.
  • Selected Poems (includes selections from Pan Cogito), translated from the original Polish by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter, Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • Raport z oblezonego miasta, Instytut Literacki (Paris, France), 1983, translation by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter published as Report from the Besieged City,Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1985.
  • Report from a Town Under Seige(single poem), translated by Boguslaw Rostworowski, Trace (Portland, OR), 1984.
  • Barbarzyna w ogrodzie, Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1962, translation by Michael March and Jaroslaw Anders published as The Barbarian in the Garden(essays), Carcanet (Manchester, UK), 1985, Harcourt Brace (San Diego, CA), 1986.
  • Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas,translation by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1993.
  • Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems,translation by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter, Ecco Press, 1999.
  • The King of the Ants(essays), translation by John Carpenter and Bogdana Carpenter, Ecco Press, 1999.
  • Zbigniew Herbert: Epilog burzy = Zbigniew Herbert: Epilogue of the Storm, edited by Maria Dorota Pie'nkowska, Libros, Grupa Wydawnicza Bertelsmann Media (Warsaw, Poland), 2001.
IN POLISH
  • Struna swiatla(poems; title means "A String of Light"), Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1956.
  • Hermes, pies i gwiazda(poems; title means "Hermes, a Dog and a Star"), Czytelnik, 1957.
  • Studium przedmiotu(poems; title means "The Study of an Object"), Czytlenik, 1961.
  • Napis(poems; title means "The Inscription"), Czytelnik, 1969.
  • Dramaty(plays; title means "Dramas"; includes "The Philosophers' Den," "The Reconstruction of the Poet," and "The Other Room"), Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy (Warsaw), 1970.
  • Wiersze zebrane(title means "Collected Verse"), Czytelnik, 1971, 1982.
  • Wybor poezji; Dramaty(title means "Selected Poems, Plays"), Czytelnik, 1973.
  • Az angyal kilhallgatasa,Europa (Budapest, Hungary), 1979.
  • Wybor Wierszy(poems; title means "Selected Poems"), Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy (Warsaw), 1983.
  • 18 wierszy(poems; title means "18 Poems"), Oficyna Literacka (Cracow), 1983.
  • Arkusz(title means "A Sheet"), Krag (Warsaw), 1984.
  • Elegia na odejscie,Instytut Literacki (Paris, France), 1991, Wydawn (Warsaw), 1995.
  • Studium przedmiotu,Wydawn (Warsaw), 1996.
  • Labirynt nad morzem,Zeszyty Literackie (Warsaw, Poland), 2000.
  • Listy do muzy: Prawdziwa historia niesko'nczonej milo'sci,Malgorzata Marchlewska Wydawn. (Gdynia, Poland), 2000.
  • "Kochane zwierzatka—": Listy zbigniewa herberta do przyjaciol, magdaleny i zbigniewa czajkowskich,Pa'nstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy (Warsaw, Poland), 2000.
  • (With Jerzy Zawieyski) Korespondencja 1949-1967,Bilioteka "Wiezi" (Warsaw, Poland), 2002.
  • (With Henryk Elzenberg) Korespondencja, edited, selected by Barbara Torunczyk, Zeszyty Literackie (Warsaw, Poland), 2002.
Also author of Hanba domowa, 1991, and of radio plays and dramas, including Lalek, rekonstrukcja poety, 1973. Work represented in anthologies, including The Broken Mirror, edited by Pawel Mayewski, Random House (Toronto), 1958; Introduction to Modern Polish Literature: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry, edited by Adam Gillon and Kudwik Krzyzanowski, Twayne, 1964; and Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Czeslaw Milosz, Doubleday, 1965.