My brother-in-law at single point t...
My brother-in-law at single point this summer asked me what I was working upon and when I told him that I was translating contemporary poesy for an upcoming issue of an American journal, he asked, "Szymborska?" I told him that Szymborska was something onward the order of ancient history. Andrzej Sosnowski, whose metrical compositions were on my mind at the time of our conversation, is roughly a dozen years older than my brother-in-law; according to the time-lag evinced by dint of his suggestion, Sosnowski will have to wait until his generation's children are in their early thirties before his name will
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