People on a Bridge
Twenty-two poems set a baby's studio portrait against what the baby grew up to be, argue that torture is a fact of the body no century has managed to revise, and stop to quarrel with a Japanese woodblock print in which the rain has been falling for a hundred and thirty years without arriving. The voice is conversational to the point of disarming, building its case from small examples and a flat refusal to raise itself. Polish critics rank it among the essential collections of the decade; the underground Solidarity press gave it a prize, ten years before the Nobel.
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