True Life: Poems from a writer who has

from a writer who has been called "a genius of the modern American moment" (Philadelphia Inquirer)

" What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work

exactly how long he's been on the road

whose novels have made him famous across Europe and America

True Life: Poems from a writer who hasA stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. . . . I think I sought wisdom (without resignation) in poems and also a certain calm madness. I found, much later, a moment's joy and melancholy's dark contentment. In True Life, 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