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Selected Poems

By (author) Zbigniew Herbert, Edited by Alissa Valles, Edited by J M Coetzee

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Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts Born in Poland, Zbigniew Herbert was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, moved throughout his work by a powerful sense of humanity in the darkest of times. This new selection brings together poems from across the whole of his writing life, from his first volume Chord of Light in 1956, to works published posthumously in 2024. Direct, lucid, sometimes impish in his ironic humour, and deeply informed not only by the history of his own time, but by the Classical world, here is a poet of huge imaginative range and profundity, who desires always to â€˜touch the essenceâ€™: to get to the heart of life. ""He offers what we all need in an age of darkening anxiety and mistrust: a voice of lucid, truly humane observation and integrity. Ethical, often ironical, full of self-doubt; quick, original and vivid."" Ruth Padel

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