An English-language debut by one of Poland’s celebrated contemporary poets

Nothing Lost: Selected Poems offers a selection of Maciej Robert’s recent poems in a new arrangement. As a lyric poet, Robert expresses the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of a single speaker — as one definition of “lyric poetry” would have it — but without forgetting that each one of us is part of a larger whole and thus connected to other human beings and to what’s near and what’s far. It’s a gift, really, to read his work and see the micro and the macro perspectives come into contact, giving rise to a kind of joyous hesitancy on the part of the poet who, thankfully, does not have everything figured out.