9780156002165
View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Wislawa Szymborska; Clare Cavanagh; Stanisaw Baranczak
ISBN 13: 9780156002165
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Softcover
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In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty. The ruins of Troy; sunlight gleaming on a pewter jug; birds returning in the spring; the Abominable Snowman lurking in the Himalayas; a body-building contest; a symphony; a macabre laboratory experiment with a decapitated dog; a postcard from a sister who has "much to tell"; the discovery of a new star; the irrationality of love; the infinity of (pi).
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"No lyric writer has ever been more confident of the universality of human response. Szymborska writes not for Poles alone, nor for women alone, nor for the 20th century alone: she believes fiercely in a common epistemology and a common ethic, at least within the Western culture she writes from and to...The universality of suffering is Szymborska's chief life-theme, and reiterative narration (interspersed with epigram) is her usual rhetorical mode...In a time when it is being metaphysically denied that any human universals exist, it is salutary to read Szymborska on the ancientness of human evil. Mercifully, Szymborska also notes the perpetual resurgence of hope and the deep rewards of human attachment."
Helen Vendler, New Republic, 01/01/1996
Review:"These skillful new translations should widen the American audience for a Polish poet who is a modern European master...she captures the nightmarish contingency of human survival, and the human callousness toward nature, with an ironic elegance miraculously free of bitterness."
New Yorker, 02/12/1996
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