Mysticism for Beginners
Title | Mysticism for Beginners PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Zagajewski |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1999-04-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374526877 |
[Zagajewski] is in some sense a pilgrim, a seeker, a celebrant in search of the divine, the unchanging, the absolute. His poems are filled with radiant moments of plenitude. They are spiritual emblems, hymns to the unknown, levers for transcendence. --Edward Hirsch, Doubletake. Zagajewski deserves the attention of readers accustomed to swerve away from poetry. And moreover, he is good: the unmistakable quality of the real thing -- a sunlike force that wilts clichés and bollixes the categories of expectation -- manifests itself powerfully through able translation. --Robert Pinsky, The New Republic.
Without End
Title | Without End PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Zagajewski |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2003-03-18 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374528616 |
I love to swim in the sea, which keeps talking to itself in the monotone of a vagabond who no longer recalls exactly how long he's been on the road. Swimming is like prayer: palms join and part, join and part, almost without end. --from "On Swimming" Without End draws from each of Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print--Tremor, Canvas, and Mysticism for Beginners--and features new work that is among his most refreshing and rewarding. These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."
Adam and Eve and Other People
Title | Adam and Eve and Other People PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Munroe Rogers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 1879 |
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The Literary World
Title | The Literary World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
Risk, and Other Poems
Title | Risk, and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Fiske Bates |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1879 |
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Asymmetry
Title | Asymmetry PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Zagajewski |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2018-11-20 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374106479 |
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.
The Hatred of Poetry
Title | The Hatred of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Lerner |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0865478201 |
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--