View with a Grain of Sand - Selected Poems

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
A remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets.

In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty.

About the author

WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (1923–2012) was born in Poland and worked as a poetry editor, translator, and columnist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. Her books include Monologue of a Dog, Map: Collected and Last Poems, and Poems New and Collected: 1957–1997.

Summary

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
A remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.
In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty.
"Wislawa Szymborska is not only one of the finest poets living today, but also one of the most readable. In these dazzling new translations Baranczak and Cavanaugh convey the full range of her wit and humor in poems that read as if they were written in English.” -Charles Simic

Product details

• Authors: Wisawa Szymborska, Wislawa Szymborska, Wiswala Szymborska
• Assisted by: Clare Cavanagh (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.1995
• EAN: 9780156002165
• ISBN: 978-0-15-600216-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 209 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; nonfiction;poetry;european poetry, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Classics, POETRY: POETS: H TO Z, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/POETRY, LITERATURE: POETRY, POETRY: Haiku *, nonfiction;poetry;european poetry;1994;1995;1996, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / Scandinavian