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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Tadeusz Dabrowski's poetry is as beguiling, reflective and precise as a thousand fragments from a shattered hall of mirrors. Whether observing laundry or the military, our cravings for bread or literature, the poems blend the low and the high with a startling grace. They demonstrate that the messiness of human experience, its visceral realities, the carnal truths of the body, our small joys and inevitable decay, are all part of the same fragile narrative. This poetry moves intimately through spaces, sacred and profane, and suggests we are never fully in one world or the other but constantly drifting between them.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A new book of poetry by Cambridge legend Gail Mazur.'What an apt title, World On a String, for poems that speak to the tethering and tenuousness this life is. Mazur writes: 'Go, sit in the woods, ' I said to myself / in the middle of my life, 'and learn / the alphabet for what you can find there.' And what an alphabet she's found.'-?Andrea Cohen'Skeptical yet hopeful, candid yet gentle, clear-eyed but forgiving?-Mazur's poetry achieves these beautiful simultaneities.'-?Mark Halliday'When I read Gail Mazur's polished-but-not-too-polished genius for the way the lyrical and the historical interpenetrate, I know I'm in the presence of one of the rarest, strangest, most quietly original sensibilities that I've ever read. Full of gravitas, sly humor, and a gift for telling the truth all the way to the bottom, her poems, in Seamus Heaney's words, 'are steeped in luck': the luck of knowing how to conjure gone worlds without strain, of feeling with great accuracy and no noisy rhetoric what Lowell aspired to?-?to be heartbreaking. But the 'funerals' in Mazur's brain are never just funereal or elegiac grandstanding, but astonishing acts of linguistic virtuosity, seemingly plain-style but so quietly eloquent and luminous that they overbear loss, identity, even the atrocities of history itself. World on a String is that magnificent instance of heart, love, intelligence, and language all coming together to make a poetry that is permanently achieved.'--?Tom Sleigh.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Intimate, historical, ruminative, musical, Wang Jiaxin is a major contemporary voice in world poetry. His new collection, At the Same Time, invites readers into a space where disparate times and cultures converge in luminous poetic dialogue. Weaving together themes of memory and exile, these intimate and historical meditations range from the literary figures of Du Fu and Akhmatova to far flung places such as Santorini and Long Island. Delicately attentive, they both witness the weight of history whilst exploring the transience of the everyday-a mode, perspective, a remedy to our disjointed times that only masterful poetry like this can administer.Wang Jiaxin is a Chinese poet, essayist, and translator and has publishedmore than forty books.His work has had an important influence on Chi-nese poetry and has been translated into many languages. His collection ofpoems in English is Darkening Mirror (Tebot Bach, 2017), translated byDiana Shi and George O'Connell, with a foreword by former US Poet Lau-reate Robert Hass. His poems have been published in The American PoetryReview, Words Without Borders, American Poets and The Kenyon Review, and he has been a poet-in-residence at the Dutch Literary Foundation (Am-sterdam, 2022) and at the International Writing Program at the Universityof Iowa (2013). An esteemed translator of Yeats, Mandelstam, and espe-cially of Paul Celan. He has won many domestic and international awards.John Crespi, Director of Asian Studies at Colgate University, has extolledhis work: 'Wang Jiaxin has exerted a far-reaching influence over contem-porary Chinese poetry not just as a poet but also for his role as a critic andtranslator. Wang's poetic voice stands out for the gravity, clarity, and resolvewith which it explores the individual's relation to history, destiny, culturalinheritance, and humanity.'Wang Jiaxin was born in Hubei province andgraduated from Wuhan University.He was a professor at Renmin Universityof China for years--he now lives most of his time in New York.