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Notes
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English translation of first line: River Vistula
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Epigraph: In memory of Paul Celan
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Author's note: 1979
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The poem is initially addressed to the Vistula and Seine rivers as symbolic of Poland and France, both homelands for the poet. It ends with a tribute to Romanian poet Paul Celan who wrote in German, and who ended his life in Paris, drowning himself in the Seine, or as the poem puts it, 'who chose his own river'.
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