For Adam Zagajewski
Michael Hofmann, 15 December 2022
“... Why the past tense?Why the new, somewhat morose, expression in the photographs,the half-smile fallen from the half-wince,as though unplugged or unplupped?Why of a sudden so much attention from the Far East – it’s because the world turns into the sunand so much less in English than in German – it’s the availability, even in common speech ... ”