{"product_id":"9780374612856","title":"True Life","description":"Author: Adam Zagajewski\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780374612856\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 09 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 80 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\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 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nMary 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901053288606,"sku":"ING-9780374612856","price":21.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780374612856.jpg?v=1782352707","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780374612856","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}