The highway became the Red Sea.
He lives in Paris and Houston..
His previous books include Tremor
Canvas
Mysticism for Beginners
Without End
Solidarity, Solitude
Two Cities
Another Beauty ; and A Defense of Ardor --all published by FSG.
About the Author: Adam Zagajewski was born in Lvov in 1945.
Eternal Enemies is a luminous meeting of art and everyday life.
Especially moving here are his tributes to writers, friends known in person or in books--people such as Milosz and Sebald, Brodsky and Blake--which intermingle naturally with portraits of family members and loved ones.
This collection, gracefully translated by Clare Cavanagh, finds the poet reflecting on place, language, and history.
It is these qualities, combined with his wry humor, gentle skepticism, and perpetual sense of history\'s dark possibilities, that have earned him a devoted international following.
Few writers in either poetry or prose can be said to have attained the lucid intelligence and limpid economy of style that have become a matter of course with Zagajewski. --from "Storm" One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a contemporary classic.
You drove
I looked at you with love.
We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.
The highway became the Red Sea
