Adam Zagajewski — Transformation
Poetry Unbound
I Haven't Written a Single Poem in Months
When the thing that's always gotten you there isn't getting you there anymore, what happens? What do you do? As I read this poem I wonder what keeps Adam Zagievsky going. Everything else seems to have a certain kind of holiness to it because he's missing something that normally holds him together. You can be disappointed that the outcome isn't working as well as disappointed at your disappointment and that can just cause further crisis upon crisis. In Adam Zaglievsky's work here, what you see is somebody who's doing the slow, deliberate, committed work of trying to do the thing that will bring him towards his core desire.
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