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- Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997 is the definitive, complete collection of poetry by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska.Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts.
- 304 Pages
- Poetry, European
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The definitive, complete collection of poetry by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech.Book Synopsis
Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997 is the definitive, complete collection of poetry by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska.Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts.
This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm. Beautifully translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN Translation Prize for their work, this volume is a must-have for all readers of poetry.
Review Quotes
"Szymborska struggles for the utmost precision of expression, yet engages in complicated linguistic games employing rich polyphonies of her native tongue. . . . A superb English translation." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Szymborska is an intellectually supple but accessible poet, and her translators are sensitive to the lyrical limberness of [her] verse." -- Boston Sunday Globe
"A major poet whose dark, complex and profoundly intelligent work might otherwise have remained lost to us. Szymborska is a poet who comes across unusually well in translation, for her poetry is made as much of images as ideas, their manipulation and unlikely juxtaposition, as of the untranslatable nuances of words." -- Washington Post
"It may seem superfluous to praise a Nobel laureate in literature, but Szymborska is a writer richly deserving of her recent renown. She has no counterpart in English verse. An essential purchase for all interested in literature." -- Library Journal
"Szymborska has become, with the suddenness of a shot of lighting, a necessary presence in modern literature, without whom our world has until now become poorer." -- Boston Phoenix