Name: True Life: Poems
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Author: Adam Zagajewski
ISBN: 9780374601560

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adam Zagajewski

Translated by

Clare Cavanagh

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9780374601560

Synopsis "True Life: Poems "

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 ("Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity") and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness ("We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal"). Mary Oliver called Zagajewski "the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time," and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems "pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence." 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

Adam Zagajewski

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Adam Zagajewski (Lvov, actualmente Ucrania, 1945 – Cracovia, 2021) es una de las voces más relevantes de la literatura de las últimas décadas. En 1982 se exilió a París y más tarde a Estados Unidos, donde fue profesor de la Universidad de Chicago. En 2002 se estableció en Cracovia, donde vivió el resto de su vida. Fue galardonado con el Premio Neustadt de Poesía 2004, el Premio Europeo de Poesía 2010 y el Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras 2017. Acantilado ha publicado sus libros de poesía Tierra del fuego (2004), Deseo (2005), Antenas (2007), Mano invisible (2012), Asimetría (2017) y Verdadera vida (2023); así como los ensayos En defensa del fervor (2005), Dos ciudades (2006), Solidaridad y soledad (2010), Releer a Rilke (2017) y Una leve exageración (2019).

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