Selected Poems of Zbigniew HerbertSelected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth centurys pre eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing that countsBorn in Poland, Zbigniew Herbert was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, moved throughout his work by a powerful sense of humanity in the darkest of times. This new selection brings