Adam Zagajewski (born 21 June 1945 in Lwów, Ukraine) is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.
In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and resides in Kraków. His poem Try To Praise The Mutilated World, printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the September 11 attacks. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Chicago and a member of its Committee on Social Thought. He teaches two classes, one of which is on fellow Polish poet Czes?aw Mi?osz.
He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit, and twice received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 1992, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bibliography (books in English Translation)moreless
Poetry
Tremor (1985)
Canvas (1991)
Mysticism for Beginners (1997)
Without End: New and Selected Poems (2002)
Eternal Enemies: Poems (2008)
Essays
Solidarity, Solitude (1990)
Two Cities (1995)
Another Beauty (2000)
Edited
Polish Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press, 2007)
Solidarno?? i samotno??. "Zeszyty literackie", 1986.
Dwa miasta. Pary?-Kraków, 1991.
W cudzym pi?knie. Pozna?, 1998.
Obrona ?arliwo?ci. Kraków, 2002.
Poeta rozmawia z filozofem. Warszawa, 2007.
FURTHER REFERENCE
Taylor, John: "Brief Crystallizations of Plenitude (Adam Zagajewski)," Into the Heart of European Poetry, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2008, pp. 284-287.