From one of Europe s most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life s improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize. "
From one of Europe s most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous c...
Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm. Beautifully translated by Stanislaw Bara-nczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN...
Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Sz...
Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary.
Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long...
Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English, with particular emphasis on the period since 1967. They illustrate virtually all her major themes and most of her important...
Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and...
Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading." As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and...
Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless...
This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition. She is one of a generation of Polish poets which witnessed the years of Soviet oppression and spoke for the feelings of the Polish people.
This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition. She is one of a generation ...
A collection of poems which includes the text of View With a Grain of Sand and 64 additional translations, as well as the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
A collection of poems which includes the text of View With a Grain of Sand and 64 additional translations, as well as the author's Nobel Prize accepta...
Genauigkeit der Beobachtung, Reichtum der Formen und Bilder, Motive, die ebenso berraschend wie unmittelbar einleuchtend sind, vor allem aber eine Ironie, die das Pathos der Form bricht und einen Gegenstand zur Klarheit bringt. Man liest, und pltzlich ist der Augenblick alles. Thomas Steinfeld, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Genauigkeit der Beobachtung, Reichtum der Formen und Bilder, Motive, die ebenso berraschend wie unmittelbar einleuchtend sind, vor allem aber eine Iro...
Skepsis und Melancholie zeichnen ihre lyrischen Anfnge aus, doch auch die Entschlossenheit, unbeirrt von kollektiven Mrchen die wahre Welt zu suchen, die Umwelt und sich selbst kritisch zu befragen (Fragen, die ich mir stelle, 1954). In der Zeit beginnender Reife werden die Bilder dichter, wird zwingende Logik durch Groteske und Paradoxon verdeutlicht, werden Aussagen durch Humor und Ironie relativiert (Rufe an Yeti, 1957). Ihre Lyrik ist Befragung, Beweisfhrung, leiser Protest, trotz wechselnder Perspektiven, Reichtums der Formen von unverkennbarer stilistischer Eigenart. Die Auswahl dieses...
Skepsis und Melancholie zeichnen ihre lyrischen Anfnge aus, doch auch die Entschlossenheit, unbeirrt von kollektiven Mrchen die wahre Welt zu suchen, ...
