Without End: New and Selected Poems

Zagajewski, Adam,Cavanagh, Clare

ISBN 10: 0374220964 / ISBN 13: 9780374220969

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Without End: New and Selected Poems
• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0374220964
• ISBN-13: 9780374220969
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket.

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Inhaltsangabe

The best work of one of Poland's greatest younger poets

I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he's been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"

This selection draws from Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print; it also includes work from his early books, Communiqué and Butcher Shop, as well as new poems that are among Zagajewski's most refreshing and rewarding: meditations on human frailty and vigor, they are vividly imagined, of great clarity of thought and scrupulous attention to the natural world. In Clare Cavanagh's lucid, graceful translations these poems share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Adam Zagajewski was born in Lvov in 1945. His previous books include the poetry collections Tremor (1985), Canvas (1992), and Mysticism for Beginners (1998), and the essay collections Two Cities (1995) and Another Beauty (2000). He lives in Paris and Houston (where he teaches at the University of Houston).