Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962) is a

Polish-American Polish Americans ( pl, Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland. There are an estimated 9.15 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing about 2.83% ...

professor,

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and

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from Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek and Latin.

Life

From 2008-2011, editor-in-chief of ''

The Polish Review ''The Polish Review'' is an English-language academic journal published quarterly in New York City by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. ''The Polish Review'' was established in 1956. Editors-in-chief The following persons hav ...

'', the scholarly quarterly of the

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, headquartered in

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. His original poetry has been published in literary journals such as Red River Review, Chaparral, Poetry South, OVS, and elsewhere. He has published two volumes of poetry, "Beast" (PlanB Press, 2013) and "Diet of Nails" (červená barva, 2013). Among his critical works are "Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz" (CSP, 2012) and a collection of verse translations, "Rossetti's Armadillo," (2013). He translates into English and Polish. His translations of T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers into Polish have appeared in the Wrocław based journal "Odra." Recipient of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad award (London, 2013).

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*''Directory fPIASA Members, 1999'',

, 1999, p. 83. *

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, ''The Roots Are Polish'', chapter: ''Eliot Would Understand'', Toronto 2004, pg. 177-201, 1962 births American translators Translators from Polish Polish–English translators Greek–English translators Latin–English translators Living people Historians of Polish Americans The Polish Review editors {{US-translator-stub

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