True Life e-bog

A stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.. . . I think I sought wisdom(without resignation) in poemsand also a certain calm madness.I found, much later, a moment's joyand 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 ("e;Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity"e;) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness ("e;We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal"e;). Mary Oliver called Zagajewski "e;the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,"e; and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems "e;pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence."e; 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.