An exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, How is it that she keeps getting better? These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on Earth, she remains a virtuoso of form, line, and thought.
From the title poem:
I can t speak for elsewhere,
but here on Earth we ve got a fair supply of everything.
Here we manufacture chairs and...