Overview
A stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.
. . . I think I sought wisdom
(without resignation) in poems
and also a certain calm madness.
I found, much later, a momentās joy
and melancholyās dark contentment.
In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the worldās most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhythms of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it (āRoads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternityā) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (āWe knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normalā).
Mary Oliver called Zagajewski āthe most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,ā and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems āpull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.ā True Life, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewskiās insight and artistry
This book title, True Life (Poems), ISBN: 9780374601560, by Adam Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 21, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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