Another Beauty
One of Poland's most important poets, Adam Zagajewski came of age in the Communist Cracow of the 1960s and '70s. In the Beauty of the Other explores this critical period in his life when he was a student of philosophy and psychology and earned his keep lecturing to tired factory workers and Party hacks. It was in Cracow that Zagajewski began writing poetry and joined the Ledgling Polish opposition movement. He offers rare insight into the atmosphere -- both gloomy and prankish
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