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Canvas, Zagajewski's second book to appear in English, features all of this poet's distinctive traits. In these sixty-one poems, syntax explodes, masses of detail spill from profuse catalogs, lines break in ways apt but unexpected, and compressed lyrics alternate with extended riffs. European culture is the poet's native province throughout these explorations, and tim...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published April 1st 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1991)
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