{"product_id":"9780241654613-selected-poems","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e from one of the twentieth century’s pre-eminent literary voices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ebe courageous when reason fails you be courageous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ein the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Poland, Zbigniew Herbert was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, moved throughout his work by a powerful sense of humanity in the darkest of times. This new selection brings together poems from across the whole of his writing life, from his first volume \u003ci\u003eChord of Light \u003c\/i\u003ein 1956, to works published posthumously in 2024. Direct, lucid, sometimes impish in his ironic humour, and deeply informed not only by the history of his own time, but by the Classical world, here is a poet of huge imaginative range and profundity, who desires always to ‘touch the essence’: to get to the heart of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"He offers what we all need in an age of darkening anxiety and mistrust: a voice of lucid, truly humane observation and integrity. Ethical, often ironical, full of self-doubt; quick, original and vivid.\" Ruth Padel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41617201725537,"sku":"9780241654613","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32270899.jpg?v=1737106418","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241654613-selected-poems","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}