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Adam Zagajewski. Niewidzialna reka. Kraków. Znak. 2009. 99 pages. 25.90 zl. ISBN 978-83-240-1246-6
Niewidzialna reka (The invisible hand) is a uniquely harmonious volume. Adam Zagajewski's previous fears (of the encroachments of twentiethcentury history) and anxieties (regarding where to belong, how to belong, and how to connect the past with the present) appear to be vanquished. The opening poem sets the tone for the volume: the building of a new hotel, finally compacted into "glass, concrete, / forgetting," calls forth not just nostalgic sadness.the elegiac note we have heard in previous volumes. but an unexpected moment of pure joy, the ecstatic note that is Zagajewski's trademark (see WLT, May 2005). This turn.when an elegy for the departed sights and sounds of childhood is miraculously transmuted into ecstasy.is...