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Asymmetry
- Title
- Asymmetry / Adam Zagajewski ; translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh.
- Author
- Zagajewski, Adam, 1945-2021
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Additional Authors
- Cavanagh, Clare
- Description
- 77 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- A stunning new collection from Polands 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 hes 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.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections (Asymetria). English
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Asymmetry : poems
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Translations.
- Note
- Translation of: Asymetria.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1701
- ISBN
- 0374106479
- 9780374106478
- LCCN
- 2018026338
- 40028762610
- OCLC
- 1019931019
- 1019931019
- Author
- Zagajewski, Adam, 1945-2021, author.
- Title
- Asymmetry / Adam Zagajewski ; translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Cavanagh, Clare, translator.
- Cover Title
- Asymmetry : poems
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028762610
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1701