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Asymmetry : poems / Adam Zagajewski ; translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018Edition: First American editionDescription: 77 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374106478
  • 0374106479
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 891.8517 Z18 Available 33111009290681
Total holds: 0

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.

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