Name: sounds feelings thoughts,seventy poems
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Author: Wislawa Szymborska
ISBN: 9780691013800

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Wislawa Szymborska

Illustrated by

Magnus J. Krynski

Translated by

Magnus J. Krynski

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Language

English

Pages

215

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN

0691013802

ISBN13

9780691013800

Synopsis "sounds feelings thoughts,seventy poems"

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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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(1923-2012). Wislawa empezó su carrera dentro del régimen socialista polaco y después se convirtió en su opositora, saltó a la fama mundial en la década de 1990. A pesar de la breve extensión de su obra, ha sido reconocida como una de las voces más intensas y claras de la literatura universal y contemporánea, y se ha hecho acreedora de los premios Goethe (1991), Herder (1995) y Nobel de literatura (1996).

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