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Pol­ish poet and musi­cian Grze­gorz Kwiatkows­ki offers a cold, dis­tilled look at the col­lu­sion of every­day Poles who par­tic­i­pat­ed in, or fueled, the mur­der of Jews dur­ing WWII. His min­i­mal­ist writ­ing, as Jesse Nathan describes for McSweeney’s ​“Short Con­ver­sa­tions with Poets” series, has the impact of a ​“dag­ger”: ​“Punc­tu­a­tion is rare, and so is human decen­cy.” I recent­ly spoke to Kwiatkows­ki about his work, and here we present that inter­view togeth­er with Eng­lish trans­la­tions of his poet­ry by Peter Con­stan­tine and new­ly com­mis­sioned Yid­dish trans­la­tions of his poet­ry by Mag­dale­na Kozłows­ka.

During World War II, Granary Island in the Polish port city of Gdansk was the site of a Jewish ghetto. Imprisonment in the Red Mouse granary was the last stop for thousands of people before they were transported to concentration camps in Stutthoff, Auschwitz and Treblinka. The building no longer exists. The place of death, suffering, and humiliation is now an empty square.

Relacja z premiery francuskiej książki “Joies” wydanej przez La rumeur libre éditions i przetłumaczonej przez profesora Zbigniewa Naliwajka. Spotkanie odbyło się w Paryżu w Maison de la Poésie – Scène littéraire i wzięli w nim udział: Audrey Kichelewski, Claude Mouchard, Mateusz Ch i Métayer Guillaume.