Name: view with a grain of sand,selected poems
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Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
ISBN: 9780156002165

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view with a grain of sand,selected poems

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wislawa Szymborska

Publisher

Ecco Press

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0156002167

ISBN13

9780156002165

Synopsis "view with a grain of sand,selected poems"

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets.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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska (Kórnik, Poland, 1923 – Krakow, 2012) was a Polish poet of great international renown, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. Her poetry is noted for its precision, irony, and philosophical depth, exploring themes such as everyday life, existence, and wonder at the seemingly simple

Throughout her career, she published more than fifteen books of poetry, among the most important are: "That's Why We Live" (1952), "Questions to Oneself" (1954), "Salt" (1962), "A Hundred Joys" (1967), "Large Number" (1976), "People on the Bridge" (1986), "End and Beginning" (1993), and "Here" (2009). In addition to her poetry, she wrote essays where she also showed her sharp reflection

Her work is characterized by the combination of simple and accessible language with a deep and reflective background. This approach earned her, in addition to the Nobel, awards such as the Goethe (1991) and the Herder (1995), consolidating her as an essential voice of contemporary Polish and global poetry. Szymborska distinguished herself by her ability to reveal the extraordinary in the everyday, always with a tone both serious and subtly humorous, making her a key author to understand the poetry of the 20th century.

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