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Without End

New and Selected Poems

Author: Adam Zagajewski; Translated by Clare Cavanagh and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C. K. Williams

Without End

Without End

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About This Book

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...

Page Count
304
On Sale
03/18/2003

Book Details

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."

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374528614

In The News

“[Zagajewski's poems] transport us into a realm that is majestic, boundless and unknown.” —Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post Book World

“Poems [that] celebrate those rare moments when we catch a glimpse of a world from which all labels have been unpeeled.” —Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books

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Without End

Without End

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