About the Book: Unseen Hand
One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master
of the poetic form. His clear-eyed verse acknowledges atrocities past and
present, as well as the everyday traumas of contemporary life, without ever
sinking into cynical pessimism. Imbued with a uniquely sanguine perspective, his
internationally acclaimed poems elevate and celebrate quotidian joys and
fleeting moments of satisfaction. This collection, deftly translated by Clare
Cavanagh, finds the poet revisiting those themes that have long preoccupied
him-the enduring imprint of history, the beauty of nature, the place of the
exile. Unseen Hand is a moving meditation on the sublimity of