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Sommer, Piotr, 1948-, poet, essayist, translator and editor
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Dates of existence
1948-
History
Piotr Sommer is known in Poland both as an important poet and as a leading translator of English poetry into Polish. Born in 1948, he has published five collections of his own poems in Poland, as well as an antholgy of contemporary British poetry, and a book of interviews with British and Irish poets. He has translated Robert Lowell into Polish and produced Polish editions of Frank O'Hara and Charles Reznikoff.