Without End New and Selected Poems

"Zagajewski's poetic evolution is clearly charted in WITHOUT END....The world is flux and, as he explores it, Zagajewski's variety of tone is remarkable...Zagajewski's work does, in fact, display a Brahmsian richness of color, intricacy of rhythm and the occasional use of ambiguous tonality -- all in the service of an inward urgency, powerfully captured in these translations. Even if English cannot recreate the autumnal rustling of the original Polish, these renderings -- by Clare Cavanagh and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C. K. Williams -- have their own enchanting music, and the translators have consistently chosen elegant solutions for difficult passages. Such multifaceted writing can and should support a number of translations, and it is refreshing to see the work of different translators in peaceful coexistence within one book...Zagajewski's poems pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence. This is an astonishing book, worth standing hours in line for, a book to sneak into the workplace or smuggle abroad, to ship to relatives in Houston or in Lwow."Zagajewski, Adam is the author of 'Without End New and Selected Poems', published 2003 under ISBN 9780374528614 and ISBN 0374528616.