Alissa Valles

Alissa Valles is a poet and a scholar of Russian and Polish literature. Her translations from the Polish include Józef Czapski's Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History (NYRB Classics), Zuzanna Ginczanka's Firebird (NYRB Poets), Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems and Collected Prose, and Ryszard Krynicki's Our Life Grows (NYRB Poets).

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