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Asymmetry : poems / Adam Zagajewski ; translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh.

Zagajewski, Adam, 1945-2021 (author.). Cavanagh, Clare, (translator.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780374106478
ISBN: 0374106479
Physical Description: 77 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Nowhere -- Poets are Presocratics -- Summer '95 -- Marathon -- Suitcase -- Mr. Wladziu -- Mandelstam in Theodosia -- Full-blown epic -- The earth -- Kingfisher -- About my mother -- Gra·zyna -- We know what art is -- Venice, November -- Northern Sea -- Playing hooky -- Rachmaninoff -- II. Childhood -- 1943: Werner Heisenberg pays a visit to Hans Frank in Krakow -- Conversation -- Chaconne -- Senior dance -- Shelf -- July -- Underground trains -- Night, sea -- That day -- Sandals -- Rehearsal -- White sails -- Radio Street -- My favorite poets -- III. Mourning for a lost friend -- Jungle -- Ruth -- Manet -- A trip from Lvov to Sileasia in 1945 -- Highway -- Wake up -- Public speaking contest -- Pencil -- Krzys Michalski died -- Bertolt Brecht in eternity -- Rue Armand Silvestre -- Nocturne -- Orange notebook -- Cousin Hannes -- Our northern cities.