News at Eleven: It makes one think of songs by Schumann,

more than anything in English poetry, and in fact Mr. [Adam] Zagajewski often invokes music to achieve his effects. In "Music Heard With You," he mentions "Grave Brahms and elegiac Schubert,/a few songs, Chopin's fourth ballad. . . ." Here, one of the risks of being a civilized poet comes into view: the temptation to simply refer to emotions already captured in other artworks, rather than capture them anew.

But in his best poems, Mr. Zagajewski does capture them.

from The New York Sun: David Yezzi and Adam Zagajewski: Songs of Innocence and Experience

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