Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021)
Conversation
'Lost' from 'Unseen Hand' (2011), translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
'To Go to Lvov' by Adam Zagajewski
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and now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless, go to Lvov, after all
it exists, quiet and pure as
a peach. It is everywhere.
[Here's a photograph of Lvov I took in 2019, when I was there for a poetry reading]
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Here's the whole poem translated by Renata Gorczynski poetryfoundation.org/poems/48313/to
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