White Magic And Other Poems

Recognized by the Poles as one of the greatest Polish poets of the 20th century, Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski was born in Warsaw in 1921. He began writing poetry at early age, and graduated from the elite Stefan Batory Grammar School in Warsaw just a few months before war broke out and Poland was occupied by the Nazis. In the early war years Baczynski wrote copiously and studied Polish literature in the underground university, where he met Barbara Drapczynska, whom he married in 1942. The beautiful love poems Baczynski wrote to Barbara make up an important part of his writings.