Poems by Adam Zagajewski
Letter From a Reader by Adam Zagajewski
April 7, 2026
“Write about those moments / when friendship’s footbridges / seem more enduring / than despair.” — Adam Zagajewski
Transformation by Adam Zagajewski
May 5, 2023
“Write about those moments / when friendship’s footbridges / seem more enduring / than despair.” — Adam Zagajewski
Circus by Adam Zagajewski
March 30, 2016
“Write about those moments / when friendship’s footbridges / seem more enduring / than despair.” — Adam Zagajewski
Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski
May 25, 2011
"You've seen the refugees heading nowhere, / you've heard the executioners sing joyfully." — Adam Zagajewski
About My Mother by Adam Zagajewski
November 26, 2010
"making the face that best kept her / from seeing herself as she was (I take / after her here and in a few other weaknesses)," — Adam Zagajewski
My Aunts by Adam Zagajewski
December 4, 2009
“they never neglected the lavender sachets / that turned a linen closet to a meadow.” — Adam Zagajewski
Balance by Adam Zagajewski
February 2, 2009
“I thought about you and about the emptiness / that can promise one thing only: plenitude—” — Adam Zagajewski
Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski
September 10, 2005
“I'm truly not a child of the ocean, / as Antonio Machado wrote about himself, / but a child of air, mint, and cello / and not all the ways of the high world / cross paths with the life that—so far— / belongs to me.” – Adam Zagajewski