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Explore 10 of the best poems of the Polish poet and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature, Wislawa Szymborska.
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Collections of her poems that have been translated into English include People on a Bridge (1990), View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (1995), Miracle Fair (2001), and Monologue of a Dog (2005).Readers of Szymborska’s poetry have often noted its wit, irony, and deceptive simplicity.
Wisława Szymborska, was born in 1923 in Kórnik and is one of the most famous and beloved polish poets, known as the "Mozart of Poetry". She moved to Kraków in 1931 where she lived and worked until her death in early 2012.
Life. Wisława Szymborska was born on 2 July 1923 in Prowent, the second daughter [8] of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborska. Her father was, at that time, the steward of Count Władysław Zamoyski, a Polish patriot and charitable patron. After Zamoyski's death in 1924, her family moved to Toruń, and in 1931 to Kraków ...
still recalls the way it was. and nods with unsevered head. who will find it dull. and carries them to the garbage pile. those who know little. And less than little. And finally as little as nothing. gazing at the clouds. Wislawa Szymborska, "The End and the Beginning " from Miracle Fair, translated by Joanna Trzeciak.
For Wisława Szymborska the war was a formative experience of youth. The attempt to cope with a disintegration of reality is the starting point of her poetry and the foundation of her later searches. This is shown by one of her early untitled poems, which begins with the words: 'We used to know the world inside out'.
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By Wisława Szymborska. Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak. Despite the geologists’ knowledge and craft, mocking magnets, graphs, and maps—. in a split second the dream. piles before us mountains as stony. as real life. And since mountains, then valleys, plains. with perfect infrastructures.
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