A quirky, lyrical memoir of coming of age in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s by the influential poet of the Polish New Wave. Zagajewski looks back on his life and particularly time in Cracow as a philosophy student, dissident and young writer. The title is alternatively translated as In the Beauty of Another and, as is abundantly clear from this memoir, a search for beauty has preoccupied him. Susan Sontag, who provides the introduction, calls Another Beauty a wise and iridescent book which dips in and out of many genres. It's many things: a coming-of-age-memoir, commonplace book, collection of vignettes and portraits, and a defense of poetry.  (PLD37, $19.95)