description: The best work of one of Poland's greatest younger poetsI love to swim in the sea, which keepstalking to itselfin the monotone of a vagabondwho no longer recallsexactly how long he's been on the road.Swimming is like palms join and part,join and partalmost without end.--from "On Swimming"This selection draws from Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print; it also includes work from his early books, Communiqué and Butcher Shop , as well as new poems that are among Zagajewski's most refreshing and meditations on human frailty and vigor, they are vividly imagined, of great clarity of thought and scrupulous attention to the natural world. In Clare Cavanagh's lucid, graceful translations these poems 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."
language: English
title: Without End: New and Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Without End: New and Selected Poems
genres: Poetry, Surreal, Polish Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Poland
ratings_count: 504
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux