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Everything I Don't Know by Jerzy Ficowski, trans. by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer Japan and clear-eyed examinations of the"These surprising, clear, and appealing poems are to be enjoyed again and again, marking Ficowski as a poet readers won't want to miss."Publishers Weekly (starred review) "What good luck to finally have in English the writings of the brilliant Jerzy Ficowski, the poet who lived at least seventeen lives, fighting in the Warsaw Uprising, and later traveling for years with the Roma people through the roads of Poland, opposing his government, and watching