Mysticism for Beginners: Poems - Adam Zagajewski

\n \nPowerful New work by a modern master. \n \nYou must listen, listen, listen. \nTired springs breathe under water. \nAt four in the morningthe last, lonely bolt of lightning \nscribbles something quickly in the sky. \nIt says No. Or Never. \nOr Take courage, the fire's not dead. \n-from The Last Storm \n \nMysticism for Beginners is the third and most beautiful of Adam Zagajewski's collections to appear in English. The poems are about nature, history, the life of cities, the transformations of art, the spiritual essence of everyday life. Their remarkable staying power derives from the gentle meditative authority of Zagajewski's voice, here expertly rered into English by Clare Cavanagh. Zagajewski's committed, compassionate poems offer access to the mysteries at the heart of experience.\n