View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, (Paperback)

from satyridae

Any fault I find with these poems I ascribe to the vagaries of translation. I wish I could read these in the original Polish. Whatever pale echoes these might be, they are yet powerful and true. "T...

from jnwelch

Krakow-born Wislawa Symborska won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. She survived WWII in Poland, and the long Russian occupation after that. Yet her calm, probing voice is not filled with ang...

from jonfaith

Since they'd never met before, they're surethat there'd been nothing between them.But what's the word from the streets, staircases, hallways--perhaps they've passed by each other a million times?My...

from asxz

As difficult as I find it to read and appreciate books of poetry, I would have thought that a work in translation would be even more alienating. This selection of Nobel Prize winner Szymborska's wo...

from JFBallenger

This volume is filled with gems. She addresses a very broad range of themes in these poems --- the folly of reductionism, randomness and contingency in human experience, the propensity to cruelty a...