false 71978827 343293 341089 0374528616 9780374528614 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173892882m/341089.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173892882s/341089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341089.Without_End_New_and_Selected_Poems 4.28 101 I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he’s been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part,
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"

Without End draws from each of Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print--Tremor, Canvas, and Mysticism for Beginners--and features new work that is among his most refreshing and rewarding. These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."</div>]]> 69377 4.19 280 38 2002 4 0 false Mon Sep 21 07:12:13 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 07:12:13 -0700 2009