SOURCE: "Pure As a Peach," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4,382, March 27, 1987, p. 315.

In the following review of Tremor: Selected Poems, Enright praises the poetry for its clarity and simplicity as well as its distinctive humor.

Referring to the early writing of Adam Zagajewski (Polish, born in 1945, resident in Paris since 1981), Czeslaw Milosz remarks in his brief but weighty preface that the poetry of political commitment is "noble-minded, but often one-dimensional". The trouble with such poetry is that its message might as well be couched in prose, generally has been already, and, since the poetry soon vanishes out of the window, still is. However self-soothing for a while, protest poetry is rarely more productive than muttering into one's pillow in the dead of night. And yet, nothing should be alien to this most human of the arts, and it would be an odd poet, one of suspiciously iron...