View with a Grain of Sand

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Author: Wisława Szymborska

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780156002165

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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.

Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997 PDF

Author: Wisława Szymborska

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780156011464

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Provides one hundred poems including the author's "View with a Grain of Sand," and sixty-four newly-translated selections.

Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska

Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska PDF

Author: Wislawa Szymborska

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002-11-17

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0393323854

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Samples the full range of Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, history lessons unlearned, our parochial human perspective, humanity's place in the cosmos, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a humanitarian graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary in life and language.

Map

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Author: Wisława Szymborska

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0544126025

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Collects translations of poems from throughout the author's career, including several new translations, including her entire final collection in English for the first time.

Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts

Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts PDF

Author: Wislawa Szymborska

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0691213046

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Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English, with particular emphasis on the period since 1967. They illustrate virtually all her major themes and most of her important techniques. Describing Szymborka's poetry, Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire write that her verse is marked by high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. She writes of the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, taking delight in observing and naming its phenomena. She looks on with wonder, astonishment, and amusement, but almost never with despair.

Monologue of a Dog

Monologue of a Dog PDF

Author: Wisława Szymborska

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780151012206

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Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass. The poems will appear, for the first time, side by side with the Polish originals, in a book to delight new and old readers alike.

Here

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Author: Wisława Szymborska

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 054736461X

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A collection of more than twenty-five poems by Nobel Prize-winnning author Wisława Szymborska, including the title selection in which she examines life on Earth.

Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight PDF

Author: Wislawa Szymborska

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Published: 2022-11-08

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 1644212242

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A poem by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, illustrated for readers of all ages that will challenge assumptions about falling in love. They’re both convinced / that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful, / but uncertainty is more beautiful still. Love at First Sight is a poem about love and chance and destiny by the 1996 Polish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Illustrated by Italian artist Beatrice Gasca Queirazza, Szymborska’s poem comes to life in entirely new ways for her readers and for lovers everywhere in this oversized book perfect for gift giving. Szymborska tells of two young lovers bound together in an instant—or were they? As the poem unfolds, the reader’s assumptions—like those of the lovers themselves—about certainty and destiny are utterly upended, revealing the paradox and mystery of fate. Here is randomness, tricks of memory, and chance, where noticing the smallest details of our intertwined lives is more essential than asking, Are we meant for each other? “Every beginning / is only a sequel, after all…”

Good Poems

Good Poems PDF

Author: Various

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-08-26

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 0142003441

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America's beloved author, humorist, and storyteller offers a selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry PDF

Author: Jonathan Wordsworth

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-05-26

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13: 0141905654

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The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.