TY - JOUR N2 - How exactly did Adam Zagajewski, the Cracovian exile from postwar Lvov, become the “Poet of 9/11”, as Newsweek hailed him on the tenth anniversary of the infamous terrorist attack? And why has the poem lingered on in the years that follow, comforting readers in the aftermath of all kinds of disasters, private and public, natural and manmade? This essay traces the history behind the poem’s debit in English translation on the final page of the New Yorker magazine’s first issue after the attack. It follows its subsequent afterlife as one of the best-known contemporary poems in the English language, as witnessed by its countless appearances in everything from anthologies to sermons, pop songs, and personal websites in the last eighteen years. L1 - http://so.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/120143/PDF/2020-06-RL-05-Cavanagh.pdf L2 - http://so.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/120143 PY - 2020 EP - 653-662 KW - Polish contemporary poetry KW - Polish poetry in the United States KW - the 9/11 trauma KW - Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021) A1 - Cavanagh, Clare PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki T1 - „Try to praise the mutilated world”: Adam Zagajewski and the poetry of 9/11 DA - 2021.07.01 SP - 653-662 UR - http://so.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/120143 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -