Asymmetry : poems / Adam Zagajewski ; translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018Edition: First American editionDescription: 77 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374106478
- 0374106479
- Poems. Selections. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 891.8517 Z18 | Available | 33111009290681 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A stunning new collection from Poland's leading poet
Give me back my childhood,
republic of loquacious sparrows,
measureless thickets of nettles
and the timid wood owl's nightly sobs.
One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master of the poetic form. In Asymmetry , his first collection of poems in five years, he revisits the themes that have long concerned him: the enduring imprint of history, the beauty of nature, the place of the exile. Though as sanguine as ever, Zagajewski often turns to elegy in this deeply powerful collection, remembering loved ones he's lost: a hairdresser, the philosopher Krzystzof Michalski, and, most poignantly, his parents. A moving reflection on family, the sublimity of everyday life, death, and happiness, Asymmetry is a magnificent distillation of an astounding poetic voice.
I. Nowhere -- Poets are Presocratics -- Summer '95 -- Marathon -- Suitcase -- Mr. Wladziu -- Mandelstam in Theodosia -- Full-blown epic -- The earth -- Kingfisher -- About my mother -- Gra·zyna -- We know what art is -- Venice, November -- Northern Sea -- Playing hooky -- Rachmaninoff -- II. Childhood -- 1943: Werner Heisenberg pays a visit to Hans Frank in Krakow -- Conversation -- Chaconne -- Senior dance -- Shelf -- July -- Underground trains -- Night, sea -- That day -- Sandals -- Rehearsal -- White sails -- Radio Street -- My favorite poets -- III. Mourning for a lost friend -- Jungle -- Ruth -- Manet -- A trip from Lvov to Sileasia in 1945 -- Highway -- Wake up -- Public speaking contest -- Pencil -- Krzys Michalski died -- Bertolt Brecht in eternity -- Rue Armand Silvestre -- Nocturne -- Orange notebook -- Cousin Hannes -- Our northern cities.