Without End (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Adam Zagajewski
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Traveling or travelers, Exile or expatriates, Art or artists, Painting or painters, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Poland or Polish people, Urban life
The central events of Adam Zagajewski’s public life establish a lens through which the reader inevitably sees his writing. Born in Lvov, Poland, he moved with his parents to western Poland when Russia annexed the eastern part after World War II. In adulthood, Zagajewski was involved in the political protest which resulted in Polish independence in the 1990’s, protest which led to his leaving the country. He presently lives in Paris and Houston, Texas. The sense of exile from a lost homeland permeates Zagajewski’s poems, although loss itself is rarely the explicit subject of his...
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