Poems translated by Clare Cavanagh
Once we had the world backwards and forwards . . . ; Leaving the Movie Theater; Comic Love Poem; Black Song; In Trite Rhymes; Circus Animals; Questions You Ask Yourself; Lovers; Key; Night; Hania; Flagrance; Moment of Silence; Rehabilitation; I hear trumpets play the tune . . . ; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Dream; Poem in Honor; A Note; Pursuit; Nothingness unseamed itself for me too . . . ; The Old Turtle’s Dream; Military Parade; Apple Tree; Consolation; The Old Professor; Perspective; The Poet’s Nightmare; Distraction; Someone I’ve Been Watching for a While; Confessions of a Reading Machine; There Are Those Who; Chains; At the Airport; Compulsion; Everyone Sometime; Hand; Mirror; While Sleeping; Reciprocity; To My Own Poem; Map
Poems translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak
Nothing Twice; Buffo; Commemoration; Classifieds; To My Friends; Funeral (I); Brueghel’s Two Monkeys; Still; Greeting the Supersonics; Still Life with a Balloon; Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition; An Effort; Four A.M.; Atlantis; I’m Working on the World; The Monkey; Lesson; Museum; A Moment in Troy; Shadow; The Rest; Clochard; Vocabulary; Travel Elegy; Without a Title; An Unexpected Meeting; Golden Anniversary; Starvation Camp Near Jaslo; Parable; Ballad; Over Wine; Rubens’ Women; Coloratura; Bodybuilders’ Contest; Poetry Reading; Epitaph; Prologue to a Comedy; Likeness; I am too close . . . ; The Tower of Babel; Water; Synopsis; In Heraclitus’s River; Conversation with a Stone; The Joy of Writing; Memory Finally; Landscape; Family Album; Laughter; The Railroad Station; Alive; Born; Census; Soliloquy for Cassandra; A Byzantine Mosaic; Beheading; Pietà; Innocence; Vietnam; Written in a Hotel; A Film from the Sixties; Report from the Hospital; Returning Birds; Thomas Mann; Tarsier; To My Heart, on Sunday; The Acrobat; A Paleolithic Fertility Fetish; Cave; Motion; No End of Fun; Could Have; Falling from the Sky; Wrong Number; Theater Impressions; Voices; The Letters of the Dead; Old Folks’ Home; Advertisement; Lazarus Takes a Walk; Snapshot of a Crowd; Going Home; Discovery; Dinosaur Skeleton; A Speech at the Lost-and-Found; Astonishment; Birthday; Interview with a Child; Allegro ma Non Troppo; Autotomy; Frozen Motion; Certainty; The Classic; In Praise of Dreams; True Love; Under One Small Star; A Large Number; Thank-You Note; Psalm; Lot’s Wife; Seen from Above; Experiment; Smiles; The Terrorist, He’s Watching; A Medieval Miniature; Aging Opera Singer; In Praise of My Sister; Hermitage; Portrait of a Woman; Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem; Warning; The Onion; The Suicide’s Room; In Praise of Feeling Bad about Yourself; Life While-You-Wait; On the Banks of the Styx; Utopia; Pi; Stage Fright; Surplus; Archeology; View with a Grain of Sand; Clothes; On Death, Without Exaggeration; The Great Man’s House; In Broad Daylight; Our Ancestors’ Short Lives; Hitler’s First Photograph; The Century’s Decline; Children of Our Age; Tortures; Plotting with the Dead; Writing a Résumé; Funeral (II); An Opinion on the Question of Pornography; A Tale Begun; Into the Ark; Possibilities; Miracle Fair; The People on the Bridge; Sky; No Title Required; Some People Like Poetry; The End and the Beginning; Hatred; Reality Demands; The Real World; Elegiac Calculation; Cat in an Empty Apartment; Parting with a View; Séance; Love at First Sight; May 16, 1973; Maybe All This; Slapstick; Nothing’s a Gift; One Version of Events; We’re Extremely Fortunate; Moment; Among the Multitudes; Clouds; Negative; Receiver; The Three Oddest Words; The Silence of Plants; Plato, or Why; A Little Girl Tugs at the Tablecloth; A Memory; Puddle; First Love; A Few Words on the Soul; Early Hour; In the Park; A Contribution to Statistics; Some People; Photograph from September 11; Return Baggage; The Ball; A Note; List; Everything; Absence; ABC; Highway Accident; The Day After—Without Us; An Occurrence; The Courtesy of the Blind; Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History; An Interview with Atropos; Labyrinth; Greek Statue; In Fact Every Poem; Here; Thoughts That Visit Me on Busy Streets; An Idea; Teenager; Hard Life with Memory; Microcosmos; Foraminifera; Before a Journey; Divorce; Assassins; Example; Identification; Nonreading; Portrait from Memory; Dreams; In a Mail Coach; Ella in Heaven; Vermeer; Metaphysics