View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
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...
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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.BooknewsThe third collection in English by this celebrated Polish poet is characterized by sight and sentiment edged with irony, as if it were dangerous to know too well, to feel too deeply. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Paper edition (unseen), $12. (RC) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Brueghel's Two Monkeys3Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition4Nothing Twice6Museum11A Moment in Troy12Clochard15Vocabulary17Travel Elegy18An Unexpected Meeting20Rubens' Women21Coloratura23Bodybuilders' Contest25Poetry Reading26The Tower of Babel27Water28Conversation with a Stone30The Joy of Writing35Landscape37Family Album39The Railroad Station40Born42Soliloquy for Cassandra45A Byzantine Mosaic47Beheading50Pieta51Returning Birds52Thomas Mann53Tarsier55The Acrobat57A Palaeolithic Fertility Fetish58No End of Fun60Could Have65Theatre Impressions67Voices69The Letters of the Dead71Advertisement72Going Home74Discovery75Dinosaur Skeleton77Birthday79Allegro ma non troppo80Autotomy82Frozen Motion84The Classic85In Praise of Dreams87True Love89Under One Small Star91A Large Number95Thank-You Note97Psalm99Lot's Wife101Seen from Above103Experiment104Smiles106The Terrorist, He's Watching108A Medieval Miniature110In Praise of My Sister112Hermitage114Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem116Warning118The Onion120The Suicide's Room122In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself124On the Banks of the Styx125Utopia127Pi129Archeology133View with a Grain of Sand135Clothes137On Death, without Exaggeration138In Broad Daylight141Our Ancestors' Short Lives143Hitler's First Photograph145The Century's Decline147Children of Our Age149Tortures151Plotting with the Dead153Writing a Resume155Funeral157An Opinion on the Question of Pornography159A Tale Begun161Into the Ark163Miracle Fair165The People on the Bridge167Sky173No Title Required175The End and the Beginning178Hatred181Reality Demands184Elegiac Calculation187Cat in an Empty Apartment189Parting with a View191Seance194Love at First Sight197May 16, 1973199Maybe All This201Slapstick203Nothing's a Gift206One Version of Events208We're Extremely Fortunate213
\ BooknewsThe third collection in English by this celebrated Polish poet is characterized by sight and sentiment edged with irony, as if it were dangerous to know too well, to feel too deeply. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Paper edition (unseen), $12. (RC) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
