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"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" is a free verse poem by writer and professor Adam Zagajewski (translated from Polish into English by Clare Cavanagh). Originally published in his 2002 collection Without End: New and Selected Poems, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" urges readers to view the world through a lens of gratitude. Beauty exists despite the atrocities, displacement, and suffering that readers will witness if they pay close attention. Overall, this poem juxtaposes harsh political realities with mundane, beautiful images of nature and companionship.

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