Adam Zagajewski

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a few children and trees.

To wit, the apple tree on our street

blithely opened its white blooms

each April and burst

into ecstatic laughter.

We get very few chances to hear a poet who has this kind of energy, this range, and this courage before the ultimate questions. Adam Zagajewski reads at the U-M’s Rackham Amphitheater on Thursday, December 4.   

[Originally published in December, 2008.]