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“Seldom has the muse of poetry spoken to anyone with such clarity and urgency,” wrote Joseph Brodsky, “as in Zagajewski’s case.” Without End draws from each of Adam Zagajewski’s English –language collections, both in and out of print – Tremor, Canvas, and Mysticism for Beginners – and features new work that is among his most refreshing and rewarding. In lucid translations by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C. K. Williams, these poems share the vacation that allows us, in Zagajewski’s words, to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two.”