{"product_id":"true-life-poems-9780374612856","title":"True Life: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . I think I sought wisdom \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e(without resignation) in poems\u003cbr\u003eand also a certain calm madness.\u003cbr\u003eI found, much later, a moment's joy\u003cbr\u003eand melancholy's dark contentment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrue Life\u003c\/i\u003e, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world's most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhythms of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it (\"Roads cannot be destroyed \/\/ Even if peonies cover them \/ smelling like eternity\") and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (\"We knew \/ it would be the same \/ as always \/\/ It would all go back to normal\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary Oliver called Zagajewski \"the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,\" and Philip Boehm wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e that his poems \"pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.\" \u003ci\u003eTrue Life\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewski's insight and artistry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374612856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Adam Zagajewski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43433806069941,"sku":"9780374612856","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bbb6c914-7039-4e09-b473-d8ababd02d1d.jpg?v=1703569608","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/true-life-poems-9780374612856","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}