Mysticism for Beginners: Poems

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Powerful New work by a modern master. You must listen listen listen. Tired springs breathe under water. At four in the morning the last lonely bolt of lightning scribbles something quickly in the sky. It says "No." Or "Never." Or "Take courage the fires not dead." -from "The Last Storm" Mysticism for Beginners is the third and most beautiful of Adam Zagajewskis collections to appear in English. The poems are about nature history the life of cities the transformations of art the spiritual essence of everyday life. Their remarkable staying power derives from the gentle meditative authority of Zagajewskis voice here expertly rendered into English by Clare Cavanagh. Zagajewskis committed compassionate poems offer access to the mysteries at the heart of experience.