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Piotr Paziński - Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature – S4E8
Piotr Paziński (b. 1973), is a key intellectual figure in the contemporary Jewish revival in Poland. He is an editor, essayist, writer and translator.
In 2009 he published his novella Pensjonat (The Boarding House), shortlisted for the Nike Award, Poland’s highest literary prize, and received the Paszport Polityki, the cultural award of the Polish weekly Polityka for literature, film, theatre, music and visual arts in 2009 and the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012. In 2013 published his second work of fiction based on his life experiences and Polish-Jewish memory, Ptasie ulice (Bird Streets), a collection of three short-stories and one novella on Jewish collective memory overshadowed by the Holocaust.
In this episode, we discuss the situation for Jewish families that never left Poland during the twentieth century and maintained their sense of Jewish identity all along and the phenomenon of the Jewish revival that peaked in the 1990s. We focus on his two works of autobiographical fiction that have been translated into English, The Boarding House and Bird Streets, which evoke images of prewar Jewish life as seen through the unavoidable lens of the Holocaust.
Learn more about this episode, and see the biography of the guest on the Polish Cultural Institute New York's website: bit.ly/3SvB18W
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Bartek Remisko, Executive Producer
David A. Goldfarb, Host & Producer
Natalia Iyudin, Producer
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EUNIC New York Cluster Mural Project "Garden Of Collective Futures 2024"
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“Garden of Collective Futures” was a public art project organized by ten members of EUNIC Cluster New York (European Union National Institutes for Culture) in June of 2024. Artists collaborated on the design and installation under the creative lead of Ukrainian-born, New York-based artist Misha Tyutyunik. Participating Artists: Asia Sztencel (Poland) | Riivo Kruuk (Estonia) | David Leitner (Aus...
Tadeusz Konwicki with Katarzyna Zechenter - Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature - S4E7
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Tadeusz Konwicki (1926-2015) made a major contribution to the culture of dissent in Poland toward the end of the Communist period leading up to the Solidarity movement. He was born near what is today Vilnius, Lithuania, and his work betrays a strong nostalgia for the forests and landscape of Poland’s former Eastern borderlands, which were also home to the great Romantic poet, Adam Mickiewicz, a...
Podcast on Krzysztof Kieślowski's "Camera Buff"
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On the 83rd anniversary of birth of one of the most outstanding directors of European cinema, we invite you to listen to podcast on Krzysztof Kieślowski's Camera Buff (1979). Film critics and historians Michael Brooke (formerly of the British Film Institute) and Michał Oleszczyk (University of Warsaw) discuss the film in the context of the materials found in the Kieślowski Archive in Sokołowsko...
Sławomir Mrożek with Tamara Trojanowska - Encounters with Polish Literature - S4E6
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Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013) was a satirist best remembered for his absurdist plays, humorous stories, fables, cartoons and drawings. Like many writers of his generation, he was caught up in the optimistic progress toward Communism after World War II, but was soon disillusioned and became a key dissenting voice after the death of Stalin in 1953, especially during the 1960s and ‘70s in the years ...
Zbigniew Herbert with Bożena Shallcross - Encounters with Polish Literature - S4E5
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In honor of the centennial of the birth of poet and essayist, Zbigniew Herbert, the Polish Sejm (parliament) has proclaimed 2024 the Year of Zbigniew Herbert. Herbert for the most part sat out the era of socialist realism in Poland. He is best known for his works that reflect on the politics of the twentieth century from a historical, aesthetic, or philosophical distance. In this episode, we di...
The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry with Aleksandra Kremer - Encounters with Polish Literature - S4E4
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The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry with Aleksandra Kremer (Harvard) How do we know how poetry should be read aloud? If there are recordings of the poet reading, how much are we missing if we read the poem on the page without listening to them? Or should we read first and listen later, to see what the words suggest on their own without our hearing the poet’s inflection? And what if we don’t even ...
Oksana Zabuzhko with Halyna Hryn - Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature - S4E3
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Oksana Zabuzhko (author) and Halyna Hryn (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and President Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.) Oksana Zabuzhko (b.1960) is one Ukraine’s most important contemporary writers, the author of more than twenty books of different genres (poetry, fiction, non-fiction). She made her poetry debut at the age of 12, but, as her parents had been blacklisted during t...
Peace Has No Home: Posters for Ukraine
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You may hold peace in your heart. But can you forge it with your hands? Peace Has No Home: Posters for Ukraine features powerful graphic works from Polish artists, created in support of Ukraine amidst the ongoing Russian invasion. Each piece reflects the unwavering support of the Polish artistic community for their neighbors in Ukraine, embodying the ongoing solidarity Poland and other nations ...
Dare to be Copernicus: Venetian plaster workshops
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To celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Cultural Institute New York together with Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design organized an educational project inspired by the Copernicus' discovery. In winter of 2023 a group of students from the WHSAD took part in the Venetian plaster workshops inspired by the figure of Copernicus and his revolution...
Lesia Ukrainka and Ukrainian Women Writers - Encounters with Polish Literature - S4E2
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Lesia Ukrainka and Ukrainian Women Writers with Marko Pavlyshyn Lesia Ukrainka (also written “Lesya,” born Larisa Kosach, 1871-1913), is one of Ukraine’s most important writers. A poet, playwright, essayist, and feminist thinker who participated in leftist, anti-tsarist circles, her work is enjoying a particular revival right now, with new scholarship, discussion particularly among women writer...
Dare to be Copernicus: Meeting with a former NASA atronaut George D. Zamka
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To celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Cultural Institute New York together with Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design organized an educational project inspired by the Copernicus' discovery. On November 17, 2023 the students from the Williamsburg Architecture and Design High School joined by P.S. 175 from Queens met with a former NASA astron...
The Ukrainian School in Polish Romanticism - Encounters with Polish Literature - S4E1
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The Ukrainian School in Polish Romanticism with Roman Koropeckyj Before Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Zygmunt Krasiński, the foundations of Polish Romanticism in literature were laid by a group of poets oriented toward Poland’s eastern borderlands, outside the academic centers of Warsaw and Cracow. The constellation of writers that have stood out as a marker of this early Romantic peri...
Zuzanna Ginczanka - POLISH POETRY UNITES
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Polish Poetry Unites is a video series complementing our Encounters with Polish Literature series for anyone interested in literature, poetry in particular, history, and reading. In each episode, Edward Hirsch, a distinguished American poet, and the president of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, will introduce a celebrated Polish poet to American audiences. This episode of Polish Poetry Unite...
Interview with Julia Stankiewicz-Aerospace Engineer
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This interview is a part of the Polish and Flourish series-where we speak with inspiring individuals living in the US who Polish, have Polish roots, or have lived in Poland and are deeply inspired by it. In the interview with Maja Steczkowska, Deputy Director at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, aerospace engineer and visiting student researcher at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Julia Sta...
Polish Folk Dance Workshop 2023 - Polish Heritage Days
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Polish Folk Dance Workshop 2023 - Polish Heritage Days
Józef Czapski - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E12
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Józef Czapski - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E12
Reportage III: Mikołaj Grynberg and Patrycja Dołowy - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E11
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Reportage III: Mikołaj Grynberg and Patrycja Dołowy - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E11
Wiesław Myśliwski - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E10
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Wiesław Myśliwski - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E10
Zuzanna Ginczanka - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E9
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Zuzanna Ginczanka - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E9
Adam Zagajewski, a Distinct Poet
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Adam Zagajewski, a Distinct Poet
Interview with Justyna Wierzchowska-Scholar and Author
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Interview with Justyna Wierzchowska-Scholar and Author
Władysław Reymont - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E8
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Władysław Reymont - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E8
Polish and Flourish: Kent Washington (Former Professional Basketball Player)
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Polish and Flourish: Kent Washington (Former Professional Basketball Player)
Dorota Masłowska - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E7
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Dorota Masłowska - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E7
Wisława Szymborska - POLISH POETRY UNITES
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Wisława Szymborska - POLISH POETRY UNITES
Jan Matejko - painting, history, modernity - A lecture by Prof. Andrzej Szczerski
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Jan Matejko - painting, history, modernity - A lecture by Prof. Andrzej Szczerski
Henryk Sienkiewicz - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E6
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Henryk Sienkiewicz - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E6
Climate Action - ECO Solidarity 2023
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Climate Action - ECO Solidarity 2023
Debora Vogel - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E5
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Debora Vogel - Encounters with Polish Literature - S3E5

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  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 6 днів тому

    That should be "Ursula Phillips" with a double "l." Apologies to Ursula for the typo.

  • @ericjackson-nq4hp
    @ericjackson-nq4hp 7 днів тому

    What an absolute treasure! I'm reading _The Peasants_ presently. Anna Zaranko is a Rock Star! My hat is off to Penguin Random House actually spending the dough to present a new edition. An absolute treasure.

  • @andrewfox1960
    @andrewfox1960 9 днів тому

    u guys rock! thank u.

  • @doreekaplan2589
    @doreekaplan2589 20 днів тому

    "Shakespeare or somebody like that"? Who do you see as "like" Shakespeare ?

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 23 дні тому

    Hola from Querétaro, acajudi100 UA-cam My 82nd year. Readers are leaders worldwide,

  • @user-nj3ys5ix5i
    @user-nj3ys5ix5i 26 днів тому

    Is there an English version for the novel ( career of Nicklon Dyzma)

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 28 днів тому

    Here's a better example than "herbata" that I saw in "Słownik Polsko-Polski" today. Every European language has some form of "pony," except Polish, which has "kucyk."

  • @alarmerads
    @alarmerads Місяць тому

    Bodegård har översatt hennes poesi till svenska vilket inneburit fantastiska upplevelser för mig. Jag har allt som är översatt till svenska

  • @joannas4212
    @joannas4212 2 місяці тому

    beautiful

  • @AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor
    @AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor 2 місяці тому

    That was wonderful and I have learned some new info even though I have watched probably all interviews and documents about her on UA-cam. She did love that silver bird mechanism that was collecting a single cigarette from a compartment and she did say she would save it from a fire. I think it is quite an awesome item and I don't even smoke. I understand she was a very private person, I'm one myself, but I'm quite sad that I never got to meet her. I was born in Krakow and stayed there till I was about 5. We could have gone there in High School too, but of course she was not receiving school trips. She reminds me so so much of my granny, both were born in 1923 and both were small lively ladies who liked big, strong men. I love her poetry too, of course, she's my favourite poet and Im so lucky I can read her in original. Translating is not easy, I know as I do translate my own poems either from English to Polish or vice versa as I write in both. I think after recieveing the Noble Prize she hasn't written for 2 or 3 years, not longer than that, but that was still very long. Being around people drains me and she must have so busy in the first year. Her collages were fantastic. Michal Rusinek said from time to time she would lock herself in her flat for 2 weeks to do them in bulk. He also said she loved chicken wings from KFC. She was fabulous and I only wish she wrote more poems. In regards to her poem The Cat in an Empty Apartment I'm pretty sure she was too grief stricken to write it from her own perspective or perhaps as she was the one to feed the cat it just came naturally, I'm convinced she didn't write it on purpose as a poem about pet's grief. Even years later she read it still with a shaky voice, and then refused to read it at events altogether. Kornel Filipowicz meant so much to her, even though they didn't live together. They were both writers so this arrangement suited them, he was also living with his aging mother.

    • @dgoldfar
      @dgoldfar 28 днів тому

      Thanks for your detailed thoughts!

  • @markshovchan3134
    @markshovchan3134 2 місяці тому

    Great talk! In fact Szymborska is also popular among readers and literature lovers in China. The most welcomed (translated) collection of her poems is 「万物静默如谜」, which is a translation of collection <Poems New and Collected>.

    • @AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor
      @AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor 2 місяці тому

      That's wonderful! She did have a gift for writing universal poems that can be understood all over the world. And she is still relevant.

  • @shehad8
    @shehad8 2 місяці тому

    Lovely introduction, moving poem

  • @ansk6850
    @ansk6850 2 місяці тому

    Thank you.

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 3 місяці тому

    Check out Magdalena Kay's review of Aleksandra Kremer's book discussed in this episode, in the latest issue of _The Polish Review_, v. 69, no. 2 (2024), pgs. 133-35.

  • @andrewwrobel2255
    @andrewwrobel2255 4 місяці тому

    30:06 The document shown is NOT a "certificate of completion", and it does not say that Tyrmand "has written" a thriller novel, but that he "is writing" it (in Polish "pisze", not "napisal"). Dated 10 May 1954, the certificate also says it is to be produced at the People's Police HQ ("K...G... MO"), a sinister place that Tyrmand had been summoned to in February (as he writes in the Diary on 16 Feb and on 17 Feb). That scrap of paper must have been meant to protect him from more attention from the PP. 31:57 What? This is back to front. Tyrmand did NOT mean that "materially he was doing quite well, relatively". As he describes repeatedly, he barely manages to survive. When he says (Diary, 11 Jan) that his "is a life without comfort" but not "without luxury", he explains what this means: "My luxury is (...) that I am unemployed". He goes on to spell out in some detail what employment means under communism in those days. (Later the system softened, although its foundations remained unchanged until its fall.) Good programme, though. I am, btw, one of the Diary's translators.

  • @fragrancehsu7660
    @fragrancehsu7660 4 місяці тому

    Oh so beautifully Pani Aleksandra Kremer reads these verses.

  • @stanskrzeszewski9369
    @stanskrzeszewski9369 4 місяці тому

    Glad to be introduced to Maslowska; have now ordered some of her books

  • @serhiinik7646
    @serhiinik7646 4 місяці тому

    perfectly )) але , мовою краще)) But you need to convey to English ))

  • @rasheedknox2140
    @rasheedknox2140 4 місяці тому

    Is their a resource for non translated Polish science fiction and fantasy? Like Lords of the ice garden

  • @eepberlin7970
    @eepberlin7970 5 місяців тому

    You’re doing a great job!

  • @ericjackson-nq4hp
    @ericjackson-nq4hp 5 місяців тому

    This is such a treat.

  • @LivingTheBookofDisquiet
    @LivingTheBookofDisquiet 5 місяців тому

    Super-interesting audio essay. Enjoyed this a great deal, digressions included 😊

  • @Sucharush31
    @Sucharush31 5 місяців тому

    Bought the English translation of this book when I was in Krakow recently. Very much enjoying his eccentric style, although when i ask friends who grew up in Poland about it, they tend to shudder due to some shared traumatic memory of every Polish high schooler being forced to read this book at some point 😅

    • @obradlutovac3663
      @obradlutovac3663 3 місяці тому

      I think it has something to do with the fact that the book is pretty hefty. Nevertheless, it's breathtakingly beautiful and I'd never call Reymont's style 'eccentric'.

  • @MrBolinni
    @MrBolinni 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for promoting ukrainian literature

  • @ptitselet1631
    @ptitselet1631 5 місяців тому

    The best) Oksana Zabuzhko

  • @annadubovyk6224
    @annadubovyk6224 5 місяців тому

    Brilliant talk with prominent Ukrainian scholars, thank you Mr. Goldfarb!

  • @user-xu7xm2wn8u
    @user-xu7xm2wn8u 5 місяців тому

    I'm so proud of my Ukraine, Ukraine's army, Ukrainians who fight and will win. Thanks to Mrs Zabuzhko for that grate job she do on behalf of Ukraine.

  • @michaeltluongo
    @michaeltluongo 5 місяців тому

    This has been fascinating to listen to

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 5 місяців тому

    Check out all our episodes on Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian topics at- ua-cam.com/play/PLjEZUUDKxULpveAlhq8qj6Jn_IW6NiWGf.html&si=axbgSIRRFfF3RmJy

  • @ericjackson-nq4hp
    @ericjackson-nq4hp 5 місяців тому

    This channel is important to me. I plan to read every translated word of Tokarczuk that makes it to English. I am more than 10 hours into _The Books of Jacob_ and I am starting over from the prologue, again. The novel is extraordinary and I recognize that--it is humbling but a tremendous literary pleasure What a treat this episode turned out to be.

  • @stefanhalikowskismith2952
    @stefanhalikowskismith2952 6 місяців тому

    this is Episode 21. DO you have an Episode on Cyprian Norwid?

  • @adamszlachetka4407
    @adamszlachetka4407 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for introducing me to this poet and for this discussion

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 6 місяців тому

    Check out all our episodes on Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian topics at- ua-cam.com/play/PLjEZUUDKxULpveAlhq8qj6Jn_IW6NiWGf.html&si=axbgSIRRFfF3RmJy

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 6 місяців тому

    Check out all our episodes on Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian topics at- ua-cam.com/play/PLjEZUUDKxULpveAlhq8qj6Jn_IW6NiWGf.html&si=axbgSIRRFfF3RmJy

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 6 місяців тому

    Check out all our episodes on Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian topics at- ua-cam.com/play/PLjEZUUDKxULpveAlhq8qj6Jn_IW6NiWGf.html&si=axbgSIRRFfF3RmJy

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 6 місяців тому

    Check out all our episodes on Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian topics at- ua-cam.com/play/PLjEZUUDKxULpveAlhq8qj6Jn_IW6NiWGf.html&si=axbgSIRRFfF3RmJy

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 6 місяців тому

    Check out all our episodes on Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian topics at- ua-cam.com/play/PLjEZUUDKxULpveAlhq8qj6Jn_IW6NiWGf.html&si=axbgSIRRFfF3RmJy

  • @dgoldfar
    @dgoldfar 6 місяців тому

    Check out all our episodes on Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian topics at- ua-cam.com/play/PLjEZUUDKxULpveAlhq8qj6Jn_IW6NiWGf.html&si=axbgSIRRFfF3RmJy

  • @mr.wrongthink.1325
    @mr.wrongthink.1325 6 місяців тому

    Tokarczuk is not a historian. She made up stories that are anti-Polish. Stories were false, but the committee liked it. Shame! No wonder, they gave their "price" to the butcher Henry Kissinger, the "doctor" that invented lobotomy, "mother" Theresa the friend of poverty and not the poor. Shame.

    • @ericjackson-nq4hp
      @ericjackson-nq4hp 5 місяців тому

      PTSD is written all over your post. I wish you well. Society is traumatizing, that's true. Good luck to you--

  • @lilianarado2497
    @lilianarado2497 6 місяців тому

    I’ve got the book and I actually am polish

  • @quetzaltpa4450
    @quetzaltpa4450 7 місяців тому

    I liked the video!..

  • @chriswillis7024
    @chriswillis7024 7 місяців тому

    very poignant passage

  • @scottprophit8091
    @scottprophit8091 7 місяців тому

    Three of my favorite novels....hard to get through the Polish names but once you get handle on the names and the characters archetypes its easy to follow.

  • @user-xy1uw6xi1o
    @user-xy1uw6xi1o 7 місяців тому

    The main financial backer of Czapski was Yolanda Wankowicz, the Marquise de Boisgelin. Yolanda was related to Czapski, Giedroyc,vand Melchior Wankowicz, her Wankowicz family also being from Minsk.

  • @swandiveable
    @swandiveable 8 місяців тому

    wasn't Reymont from Radomsko (aka Nowa Radomsk), my family's town? i believe so.

    • @dgoldfar
      @dgoldfar 6 місяців тому

      He was born in Kobiele Wielkie, a village near Radomsko.

  • @user-uw4dl1zj2e
    @user-uw4dl1zj2e 8 місяців тому

    Great conversation! Thank you Irena, thank you David.

  • @maryguterson5508
    @maryguterson5508 8 місяців тому

    This was remarkable! Lee Grant made it so very palpable. The words of the poet nestled against a 97 (and a half) year-old Jewish woman defying age and conventions--how perfect this was! Thank you!

  • @jeannieelias9545
    @jeannieelias9545 8 місяців тому

    Beautiful inspiring portrait of 2 remarkable women and a poem that will be forever etched in my soul.

  • @RhondaHayter
    @RhondaHayter 8 місяців тому

    How beautiful...in every regard. And I'm signing up for pilate's now.

  • @AW-jt5vj
    @AW-jt5vj 8 місяців тому

    Lovely film about a wonderful poet I hadn't heard of.