The Polish poet, Adam Zagajewski, has passed on. An obit is in today's NYT. He thought "a slight exaggeration" is a fairly accurate description of the art of poetry. But see the Times obit for the origin of this curious notion.
Zagajewski was yet another East European poet whose life work reflected giving up home. So many of us who write poetry, who have not had to experience such dislocation in our lives, can only read the work and try to imagine.
Moving Out and In
We make the world perfect with our
intellect,
a perfect place to be, and have no home,
not until we correct it, little by
little,
make it better, a better place, more human.
It stands corrected then, our livable
error,
a place we can move out of, into.
a perfect place to be, and have no home,
make it better, a better place, more human.
a place we can move out of, into.
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