Text: “Smoke” from Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, copyright © 2002 by the author. English translation by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, C.K. Williams and Clare Cavanagh, copyright © 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Used by/reprinted with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Presented by Creative Time Photo: Attilio Maranzano

For the City (2005). Light projection on Rockefeller Center. Photographed by Attilo Maranzano.

 

Text: “Love Lies Sleeping” from The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop, copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Used by/reprinted with permission from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Presented by Creative Time Photo: Attilio Maranzano

For the City (2005). Light projection on the New York Public Library. Photographed by Attilo Maranzano.

Text (pictured): “He Embraces His Murderer” from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish, copyright © 2003 by the Regents of the University of California. Used/reprinted with permission of the University of California Press.; “My Sad Self” from Collected Poems, 1947–1980 by Allen Ginsberg, copyright © 1958 by the author. Used by permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

For the City (2005). Light projection on Rockefeller Center. Photographed by Attilo Maranzano.