Reconstruction of the Poet
Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 13, 2024
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Poems and plays from 1950 to 1998 bring Herbert’s uncollected writing together.
- Themes
- Postwar ruin and European culture, Wartime loss, eroticism, and friendship, Political and metaphysical passions
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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 never-before-published work that casts new light on a much-loved poet.
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Spanning from 1950 to 1998, this volume of work contains three plays—The Philosophers’ Cave, The Other Room, and Reconstruction of the Poet—and over fifty poems. This collection takes readers through the mind of a man attempting to look at the ruins of a postwar world while seeking living sources of European culture, with poems commemorating contemporaries fallen in wartime, elevating erotic experience and friendship, and exploring political and metaphysical passions. A rich expansion of previously published works by Herbert, Reconstruction of the Poet is both an introduction for readers who might still be unfamiliar with this important poet’s work and a fresh invitation for reflection for his longtime readers.
Herbert’s Uncollected Works
Poems and plays from 1950 to 1998 bring Herbert’s uncollected writing together.
Come here for
- Three plays: The Philosophers’ Cave, The Other Room, and Reconstruction of the Poet
Expect
- Poems commemorating contemporaries fallen in wartime
- Political and metaphysical passions explored in poems
Where it sits
| Eastern European Poetry | 93% |
|---|---|
| Eastern European Drama | 43% |
| Eastern European Collections | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- German Plays
- Eastern European Drama
- Poetry Anthologies
- European Poetry
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- Poetry - General Themes
- Poetry About Death
- Family Poems
- Political & Protest Poetry
- Authors
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 13, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Postwar ruin and European culture · Wartime loss, eroticism, and friendship · Political and metaphysical passions
- Reading lane
- German Plays