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Historyczka literatury, idei, eseistka, wykłada na Princeton University. Ostatnio wydała książkę „Honor, horror i klasycy” (Pogranicze, Sejny 2012).

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Thanksgiving at OWS

Thanksgiving at OWS

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Media

I did not know how to refer to the people who stay there. Then I heard a speech by Michael Moore, and I learned what to call them: occupiers. The movement, he said, changed a lot of things, one of them being the meaning of the word ‘to occupy’

SOMETHING OR OTHER: Little Rebellions

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
Little Rebellions

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Media

Touching is what is needed. Memory doesn’t hold the map

SOMETHING OR OTHER: The Crevice

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
The Crevice

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Media

Where did they come from – all these young and not so young adults who remind us of what we were not so long ago? And why is this crevice so scary

SOMETHING OR OTHER: Poetic Emergency – wedding song

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
Poetic Emergency – wedding song

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature

A very close friend of mine needed a poem to include in her blessing at the wedding of her daughter. The bride grew up bilingual so my friend wanted a poem written in Polish, but with an English language version

SOMETHING OR OTHER: The Portrait of Zuzanna Ginczanka

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
The Portrait of Zuzanna Ginczanka

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature

The irony is caused also by the contrast with another poem on which ‘Non omnis moriar’ is modeled. That model poem was very well known to Ginczanka’s generation: it was ‘My Testament’ by one of the Romantic Polish bards, Juliusz Słowacki.

SOMETHING OR OTHER: The Goneness of the Past

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
The Goneness of the Past

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature

It is the centenary of Czesław Miłosz’s birth, and I am trying to understand the origin of my attachment to this poet

SOMETHING OR OTHER: Joseph Brodsky, Fifteen Years Later

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
Joseph Brodsky,
Fifteen Years Later

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature

On 28 January, a large group of Brodsky’s friends, acquaintances, admirers and distant relatives met in the Russian Samovar, a restaurant on West 52nd street in New York

SOMETHING OR OTHER: The Morning After

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
The Morning After

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Media

But the dogs are a tiny minority of the Prospect Park habitués. The park is in constant use by people who exercise their bodies and their minds

SOMETHING OR OTHER: Elżbieta

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
Elżbieta

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Art

Actresses or not, we all struggled with difficulties, perhaps greater perhaps lesser, but most certainly somewhat similar to those faced by our contemporaries who did not emigrate

SOMETHING OR OTHER: The Prison and Freedom of Language

SOMETHING OR OTHER:
The Prison and Freedom of Language

BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature

In his native language, the tone, the gesture, the emotion is fully controlled; in English, it is the effort of sounding the words that predominates. The difference in self assurance is striking

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