{"product_id":"9780374612856","title":"True Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . I think I sought wisdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(without resignation) in poems\u003cbr\u003eand also a certain calm madness.\u003cbr\u003eI found, much later, a moment’s joy\u003cbr\u003eand melancholy’s dark contentment.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrue Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it (“Roads cannot be destroyed \/\/ Even if peonies cover them \/ smelling like eternity”) and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness (“We knew \/ it would be the same \/ as always \/\/ It would all go back to normal”). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Oliver called Zagajewski “the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,” and Philip Boehm wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e that his poems “pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.” \u003ci\u003eTrue Life\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewski’s insight and artistry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Zagajewski","offers":[{"title":"Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-02-20","offer_id":44652676579583,"sku":"9780374612856","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3527f40a-d313-479d-b5aa-e33d9d1f9d50.jpg?v=1704310131","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780374612856","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}