Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski
Reading Date: Wednesday, March 8, 1989
- Introduction
- "Vacation"
- "Electric Elegy"
- "The Bells"
- "Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America"
- "Without Shape"
- "Every Hour on the Hour"
- "That Day"
- "Moses"
- "After the End of the World"
- "Definition"
- "Late Beethoven"
- "Franz Schubert: A Press Conference"
- "In the Beauty Created by Others"
- "Poems on Poland"
- "My Masters"
- "To Go to Lvov"
- Poem read in Polish
- "Cruel"
Introduction-890
by Lois Shelton
"Vacation"-891
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
"Electric Elegy"-892
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
"The Bells"-893
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
"Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America"-894
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
"Without Shape"-895
Published version bears the title "Without Form." Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
"Every Hour on the Hour"-896
Uncollected in English translation; translated by Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry.
"That Day"-897
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
"Moses"-898
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
"After the End of the World"-899
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Solidarity, Solitude: Essays. Trans. Lillian Vallee. New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.
"Definition"-900
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Solidarity, Solitude: Essays. Trans. Lillian Vallee. New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.
"Late Beethoven"-901
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
"Franz Schubert: A Press Conference"-902
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
"In the Beauty Created by Others"-903
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
"Poems on Poland"-904
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
"My Masters"-905
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
"To Go to Lvov"-906
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
Poem read in Polish-907
"Cruel"-908
Differs slightly from published verison.
Annotation:
Zagajewski, Adam. Canvas. Trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Adam Zagajewski reads from Tremor (1985) and Solidarity, Solitude (1990). He also reads early drafts of translations of poems that would go on to be collected in Canvas (1991); most differ from those that appear in the published version of the book (translated by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams).

- memory
- translation
- persona poem
- war
- philosophy
- death
- time
- history
- silence
- dreams
- religion
- anti-war
- distance
- end of the world
- night
- mortality
- humanity
- symbolism
- guggenheim fellow
- holocaust
- imagery
- government
- life/death
- images
- wwii
- symbols
- poland
- bells
- past
- image
- jewish
- classical music
- existence
- non-existence
- innocence
- eternity
- daily life
- composers
- persistence
- new wave
- Generation of '68
- Polish
- protest poetry
- refuge
- shoah
- banality of evil
- natural imagery
- resilience
- encyclopedia
- infinity
- catastrophe
- old world
- independence
- annihilation
- oblivion
- immortality
- immortal
- mortal
- political philosophy
- the state
- citizenry
- citizen
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