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Michael Hofmann: Zagajewski’s Charm, 15 December 2005
Selected Poems
by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams.
Faber, 173 pp., £12.99, October 2004,0 571 22425 3 Show More
by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams.
Faber, 173 pp., £12.99, October 2004,
A Defence of Ardour: Essays
by Adam Zagajewski.
Farrar, Straus, 198 pp., $14, October 2005,0 374 52988 4 Show More
by Adam Zagajewski.
Farrar, Straus, 198 pp., $14, October 2005,
“... the ‘I’ (as in ‘I do this, I do that’) is the repository of all charm: the poems are, in Norman Mailer’s phrase, ‘advertisements for myself’. In Zagajewski, the charm is that of all the world. O’Hara, straightening his eyelids, throwing a couple of tangerines in an overnight bag, is personally and actively and often spectacularly ... ”