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Book World: Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us.


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Book World: Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us.
Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post
April 14, 2021
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The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, who died March 21, wasn t a household name. But there s a decent chance you know one of his poems. And if you lived through 2020, you have a bone-deep understanding of the mood it evoked.
In Try to Praise the Mutilated World, Zagajewski summoned the urge to sound a note of positivity amid death and chaos: you ve seen the refugees going nowhere, / you ve heard the executioners sing joyfully. / You should praise the mutilated world. The bittersweet poem circulated widely after 9/11. The New Yorker printed it on the back page of its first issue after the attacks, where it sat, alone, somber as a tombstone but surrounded by enough white space to feel something like hope. ....

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