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Without End: New and Selected Poems
Without End New and Selected Poems
Author: Adam Zagajewski
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 witho...  more »

--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."
ISBN-13: 9780374220969
ISBN-10: 0374220964
Publication Date: 2/10/2002
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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