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Title: Elegy For The Departure by Zbigniew Herbert ISBN: 0-88001-619-1 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A lovely collection by an unheralded master
Comment: Had Herbert hewed to the leftwing/socialist line, he would have won the Nobel Prize years ago. He didn't, however, and, like Borges, he was denied the prize in favor of much lesser writers. Thankfully he was honored by the Ingersoll Foundation a few years before his death with The T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing, an award conferred for merit, not idealogy. Herbert's poems have an elegant austerity born out of his own privations and the loss he experienced and witnessed for most of his life, first at the hands of the Nazis, then the Communists. But he is not without hope and humor. The book is divided into three sections: the first comprised of early poems, the second by a sequence of wry, lovely, surprising prose poems, the last of latterday work. Among the outstanding pieces here are "A Small Bird" and the title poem, a magnificent farewell to art and to life that could well serve as Herbert's epitaph. Here's hoping his name and work win the widespread attention they deserve.
Rating: 5
Summary: Herbert deserves the acclaim he is finally getting.
Comment: While I havent read this book, I have read much of his earlier work, and certainly his poems are the genuine article. The Rain, Apollo and Mauryas are two quite wonderful pieces that combine emotion and intellect in a seldom-encountered way. Read him.
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Title: Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert ISBN: 0156106817 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, A. Alvarez, Peter Dale Scott ISBN: 0880010991 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz ISBN: 0520044762 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1984 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Canvas by Adam Zagajewski, Renata Gorczynski, C. K. Williams, Benjamin Ivry ISBN: 0374523983 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination by Adam Zagajewski, Lillian Vallee ISBN: 0820324094 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 22 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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