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True Life

Af: Adam Zagajewski Engelsk Hardback

True Life

Af: Adam Zagajewski Engelsk Hardback
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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 moment’s joy
and melancholy’s dark contentment.


In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world’s 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 (“Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity”) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (“We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal”).

Mary Oliver called Zagajewski “the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,” and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems “pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.” True Life, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewski’s insight and artistry.

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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 moment’s joy
and melancholy’s dark contentment.


In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world’s 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 (“Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity”) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (“We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal”).

Mary Oliver called Zagajewski “the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,” and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems “pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.” True Life, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewski’s insight and artistry.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 63
ISBN-13: 9780374601560
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0374601569
Udg. Dato: 21 feb 2023
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 217mm
Højde: 145mm
Forlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Oplagsdato: 21 feb 2023
Forfatter(e): Adam Zagajewski
Forfatter(e) Adam Zagajewski


Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter


ISBN-13 9780374601560


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 63


Udgave


Længde 14mm


Bredde 217mm


Højde 145mm


Udg. Dato 21 feb 2023


Oplagsdato 21 feb 2023


Forlag Farrar Straus & Giroux

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