The I, developing

In a poem entitled "Ode to Plurality" Adam Zagejewski writes:

...Who once
touched philosophy is lost
and won't be saved by a poem
...Who once learned a wild
run of poetry will not taste anymore
the stony calm of family narratives
...Who has once met
irony will burst into laughter
during the prophet's lecture....

(from Chares Simac's 2002 review of works by Zagejewski in NYRB May 9 .. .)