 | Wydawnictwo a5
Cracow 2005
125 x 195
96 pages
paperback
ISBN 83-85568-75-1
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Adam ZagajewskiAntennae
Zagajewski has accustomed us to expect each new volume of his poetry to be outstanding. The same is true of Antennae. It includes brilliant, profound and elegant poems, such as “Walk through this city”, “Try to praise the mutilated world” and “Europe in winter”. Even if they appeared anonymously, we would know that only he could have written them, no one else. But hardly anyone notices that like any real poet, he is always expanding his field of vision and seeking new means of expression (which is the subject of his poem “Reading Miłosz”). Thus, as well as classic Zagajewski, this volume also includes short, gnomic poems and longer poems in free verse, of which I find “Antennae in the rain” the most enigmatic, because even though it is an integral piece, each line of it can be read like a separate new poem.
I think this may also be Zagajewski’s most personal volume of poetry. At a recent poetry reading in Chorzów he jokingly mentioned that his father, Professor Tadeusz Zagajewski, once wrote a book called Radio Transmitters, and now his son has published a poetry collection called Antennae. Antennae – receiving (and emitting) the most sensitive waves.
Ryszard Krynicki
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