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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems » (1st ed)

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Authors: Wislawa Szymborska, Stansilaw Baranczak (Translator), Clare Cavanagh (Translator), Stanis aw Baraânczak
ISBN-13: 9780151001538, ISBN-10: 0151001537
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Books, Inc
Date Published: May 1995
Edition: 1st ed

Author Biography: Wislawa Szymborska

WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA has worked as an editor, translator, and columnist, though she is best known as a poet. In 1996, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Book Synopsis

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.

Booknews

The third collection in English by this celebrated Polish poet is characterized by sight and sentiment edged with irony, as if it were dangerous to know too well, to feel too deeply. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Paper edition (unseen), $12. (RC) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Brueghel's Two Monkeys	3
	Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition	4
	Nothing Twice	6
	Museum	11
	A Moment in Troy	12
	Clochard	15
	Vocabulary	17
	Travel Elegy	18
	An Unexpected Meeting	20
	Rubens' Women	21
	Coloratura	23
	Bodybuilders' Contest	25
	Poetry Reading	26
	The Tower of Babel	27
	Water	28
	Conversation with a Stone	30
	The Joy of Writing	35
	Landscape	37
	Family Album	39
	The Railroad Station	40
	Born	42
	Soliloquy for Cassandra	45
	A Byzantine Mosaic	47
	Beheading	50
	Pieta	51
	Returning Birds	52
	Thomas Mann	53
	Tarsier	55
	The Acrobat	57
	A Palaeolithic Fertility Fetish	58
	No End of Fun	60
	Could Have	65
	Theatre Impressions	67
	Voices	69
	The Letters of the Dead	71
	Advertisement	72
	Going Home	74
	Discovery	75
	Dinosaur Skeleton	77
	Birthday	79
	Allegro ma non troppo	80
	Autotomy	82
	Frozen Motion	84
	The Classic	85
	In Praise of Dreams	87
	True Love	89
	Under One Small Star	91
	A Large Number	95
	Thank-You Note	97
	Psalm	99
	Lot's Wife	101
	Seen from Above	103
	Experiment	104
	Smiles	106
	The Terrorist, He's Watching	108
	A Medieval Miniature	110
	In Praise of My Sister	112
	Hermitage	114
	Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem	116
	Warning	118
	The Onion	120
	The Suicide's Room	122
	In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself	124
	On the Banks of the Styx	125
	Utopia	127
	Pi	129
	Archeology	133
	View with a Grain of Sand	135
	Clothes	137
	On Death, without Exaggeration	138
	In Broad Daylight	141
	Our Ancestors' Short Lives	143
	Hitler's First Photograph	145
	The Century's Decline	147
	Children of Our Age	149
	Tortures	151
	Plotting with the Dead	153
	Writing a Resume	155
	Funeral	157
	An Opinion on the Question of Pornography	159
	A Tale Begun	161
	Into the Ark	163
	Miracle Fair	165
	The People on the Bridge	167
	Sky	173
	No Title Required	175
	The End and the Beginning	178
	Hatred	181
	Reality Demands	184
	Elegiac Calculation	187
	Cat in an Empty Apartment	189
	Parting with a View	191
	Seance	194
	Love at First Sight	197
	May 16, 1973	199
	Maybe All This	201
	Slapstick	203
	Nothing's a Gift	206
	One Version of Events	208
	We're Extremely Fortunate	213

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Poetry

Eastern European Poetry

Polish poetry -> Translations into English
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