About the Book: Asymmetry
Give me back my childhood,
republic of loquacious sparrows,
measureless thickets of nettles
and the timid wood owls nightly sobs.
One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master
of the poetic form. In Asymmetry, his first collection of poems in five years,
he revisits the themes that have long concerned him: the enduring imprint of
history, the beauty of nature, the place of the exile. Though as sanguine as
ever, Zagajewski often turns to elegy in this deeply powerful collection,
remembering loved ones hes lost: a hairdresser, the philosopher Krzystzof
Michalski,