Every poem, Adam Zagajewski demanded, must contain the whole world. The vastness or depth of its mysteries, the universal character of its revelations, should make it seem, at once, a whole history of the human. The poems of All the Whales meet this high demand. In each of them, the reader will find himself as if in the middle of two deep universes, in a place built by an imagination that extends infinitely to all sides, like music.