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Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He is considered as one of the leading poets of the Generation of '68 or the Polish New Wave (Polish: Nowa fala) and is one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets. [Listener: Andrzej Wolski; date recorded: 2018]

TRANSCRIPT: I will now read the poem 'Truth', very old, written in the early ‘70s – it was a poem that closed the first volume of my poems, 'Communique'.

'Truth'

Translation of this poem not available.


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