Craft: Zbigniew Herbert
“Mr Cogito and the Imagination,” Zagajewski, “Heart"
The poetry of Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) is one of our best models of how to live a life in poetry despite the ascendancy of autocracy.
If you thought your job was bad, during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Herbert survived by working as a lice-feeder, a human source for blood for lice infected with typhus, as scientists were seeking a cure. Herbert w…
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