True Life: Poems
Adam Zagajewski
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True Life: Poems
Adam Zagajewski
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Zagajewski attains a scale that is epic in a poetic voice that is intimate, nearly mild. The seeming opposites — historical vision and personal tone — pervade True Life, posthumously published in an effective English translation by Clare Cavanagh.
Deftly translated.
Clare Cavanagh has been spinning Zagajewski’s poetry and books of essays into commonplace miracles of translation for going on thirty years.
This volume is a monument to such moments, a cairn to guide us..
This tender posthumous work by Zagajewski is exceptionally translated by Cavanagh, who has captured the poet’s subdued, ruminative, and wry tones.