From one of Poland's most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and translated for the first time.
Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playwright Zbigniew Herbert,*Reconstruction of the Poet*is both a celebration of a profound life of letters and a wide-ranging collection of work never published before that casts a new light on a much loved poet. Spanning 1950-1998,*Reconstruction of the Poet*contains three plays - The Philosophers Cave The Other Room, and Reconstruction of the Poet - and over fifty poems. This collection takes the reader through the mind of a man attempting to look at the ruins of a post-war world while seeking the living sources of European culture, with poems commemorating contemporaries fallen in wartime, erotic experience and friendship, and exploring political and metaphysical passions.
A rich expansion of previously published works by Herbert,*Reconstruction of the Poet*is also an introduction for those who might still be unfamiliar with this important poet's work while being a fresh instigation to reflection and an enlargement of knowledge for longtime readers of Herbert.
