Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading." As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.

Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

Literature & Fiction

Wisława Szymborska

Clare Cavanagh

Essays & Correspondence

Ecco

From a writer whom Charles Simic calls "one of the finest poets living" comes a collection of witty, compassionate, contemplative, and always surprising poems. 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. EVERYTHING Everything- a bumptious, stuck-up word. It should be written in quotes. It pretends to miss nothing, to gather, hold, contain, and have. While all the while it's just a shred of a gale.

Monologue Of A Dog: New Poems (English and Polish Edition)

Poetry

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary. 5 b/w woodcuts.

Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska

Joanna Trzeciak

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition. She is one of a generation of Polish poets which witnessed the years of Soviet oppression and spoke for the feelings of the Polish people.

View With a Grain of Sand

Faber Paperbacks

When Wislawa Szymborksa's View with a Grain of Sand, also translated by Stanislaw Baraczak and Clare Cavanagh, was published shortly after its author's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, the Polish poet, hitherto all but unknown outside her own country, became an international name. More than 10,000 copies of the book have been sold in Britain alone. Yet it was not so much the fame of the prize, as the directness, vigour, wit and honesty with which Szymborska herself writes - qualities deftly captured by her translators - that brought this about. Transcending national and generational boundaries with her rare combination of moral wisdom and down-to-earth manner of speaking to us, she is unquestionably one of the great poetic spirits of the age. Poems New and Collected adds sixty-four new translations to the text of View with a Grain of Sand and includes, as preface, its author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Poems, New and Collected

Faber&Faber

Poems New And Selected (Chinese Edition)

Hunan literature and Art Publishing House

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

Nothing Twice: Selected Poems / Nic dwa razy: Wybor wierszy

Wydawnictwo Literackie

English / Polish book of poetry from one of the most accomplished Polish poets of 20th century, and Nobel price winner in literature - Wislawa Szymborska.  All text is in both Polish and English on facing pages. The English translation by Clare Cavanagh. Full color pictorial (photographs) paper over boards.  This special edition is enhanced with a full length audio CD with a live performance by Polish Jazz legend Tomasz Stanko performing jazz improvisations on trumpet solo; and Wislawa Szymborska reciting her own poems.

Tutaj / Here (book plus CD)

Znak

Dwukropek

Wystarczy

Wydawnictwo a5

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