Stanislaw Baranczak (1946 - 2014)
I believe the first time I saw his name (and perhaps Milosz, Herbert, and Szymborska's too) was when I bought (over twenty years ago) the slender volume: Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule: Spoiling Cannibals' Fun . A great intro to modern Polish poetry. Baranczak is one of the editors, but I believe a poem or so of his is there also (I'm too lazy to dig the book out of my "stacks," which are buried in the closet). * Milosz mentions him briefly in the epilogue (probably added for the second edition) of his The History of Polish Literature (this book was more "at hand"): Surprisingly, the most-discussed books of the period were literary essays and poetry: a volume of essays by the young poet and scholar Stanislaw Baranczak (born 1946), The Mistrustful and the Presumptuous ... * From Wiki: Stanisław Barańczak (November 13, 1946 – December 26, 2014) was a poet , literary critic , scholar , editor , translator and lecture...