Without end: new and selected poems, paperback/adam zagajewski

I love to swim in the sea, which keeps talking to itself in the monotone of a vagabond who no longer recalls exactly how long hes been on the road.

Swimming is like prayer: palms join and part, join and part, almost without end.

--from On Swimming Without End draws from each of Adam Zagajewskis 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.

These poems, lucidly translated, share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewskis words, to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two.