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Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, Peter Dale Scott, Czesław Miłosz

miss_blackbird's review

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4.0

The time it took me to read this book (almost a year) is not in any way connected to the quality of this work. Poems are hard, although i think they're cool.
Once during a lecture we read some poems by ZH, and i liked it. Especially his prose poems, and especially the ones in which he alivens lifeless and simple objects such as a chair, giving them thoughts and sentiments.
His references to Greek Antiquity are a bit over the top, but that will be the difference in time between him and me.

It's a small booklet, with small wonders. Not always, but many times indeed.

_cristina's review

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4.0

I did not expect to live in such an unusual moment.
When the God of thunders and of rocky heights,
the Lord of hosts, Kyrios Sabaoth,
would humble people to the quick,
allowing them to act whatever way they wished,
leaving to them conclusions, saying nothing.
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