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This anthology contains nearly all of the work of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. The winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature, Szymborska explores issues of good and evil in a century that has produced both the Holocaust and utopian idealism.
| Size | | Length: | 273 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Perhaps closest among American poets Amy Clampitt, Szymoborska's tough naturalism does allow rays of light to penetrate its bleak landscapes, leaving lasting, sustaining impressions."
Fabricant
"A perfectly accessible volume to silence cynics who have stopped reading poetry."
Elliott
"[I]n general, Szymborska's ironic fables are cast in a universal idiom. Far from dwelling on the particular twists of her own political situation, she speaks the Esperanto of the modern secular world....POEMS NEW AND COLLECTED is an immensely enjoyable, if at times rather easy-going collection....[A]t her best, Szymborska has few rivals in this ability to convey the way a look can change the world."
Wills
"It's the philosophical weight of her subject matter--and the sheer surprise of her turns of thought--that at times save Szyborska from sliding into fatal archness. yet the weight is counter-balenced by an opposing buoyancy--a penchant for drawing our eyes and minds up and away from circumscribed immediacies, towards--what? the immensity of creation, perhaps, of limitless time and space; the somehow reassuring smallness of our place in the grand scheme of things."
Threepenny Review - Robyn Sarah
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