| Description |
ix, 214 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Brueghel's Two Monkeys -- Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition -- Nothing Twice -- Museum -- A Moment in Troy -- Clochard -- Vocabulary -- Travel Elegy -- An Unexpected Meeting -- Rubens' Women -- Coloratura -- Bodybuilders' Contest -- Poetry Reading -- The Tower of Babel -- Water -- Conversation with a Stone -- The Joy of Writing -- Landscape -- Family Album -- The Railroad Station -- Born -- Soliloquy for Cassandra -- A Byzantine Mosaic -- Beheading -- Pieta -- Returning Birds -- Thomas Mann -- Tarsier -- The Acrobat -- A Palaeolithic Fertility Fetish -- No End of Fun -- Could Have -- Theatre Impressions -- Voices -- The Letters of the Dead -- Advertisement -- Going Home -- Discovery -- Dinosaur Skeleton -- Birthday -- Allegro ma non troppo -- Autotomy -- Frozen Motion -- The Classic -- In Praise of Dreams -- True Love -- Under One Small Star -- A Large Number -- Thank-You Note -- Psalm -- Lot's Wife -- Seen from Above -- Experiment -- Smiles |
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The Terrorist, He's Watching -- A Medieval Miniature -- In Praise of My Sister -- Hermitage -- Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem -- Warning -- The Onion -- The Suicide's Room -- In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself -- On the Banks of the Styx -- Utopia -- Pi -- Archeology -- View with a Grain of Sand -- Clothes -- On Death, without Exaggeration -- In Broad Daylight -- Our Ancestors' Short Lives -- Hitler's First Photograph -- The Century's Decline -- Children of Our Age -- Tortures -- Plotting with the Dead -- Writing a Resume -- Funeral -- An Opinion on the Question of Pornography -- A Tale Begun -- Into the Ark -- Miracle Fair -- The People on the Bridge -- Sky -- No Title Required -- The End and the Beginning -- Hatred -- Reality Demands -- Elegiac Calculation -- Cat in an Empty Apartment -- Parting with a View -- Seance -- Love at First Sight -- May 16, 1973 -- Maybe All This -- Slapstick -- Nothing's a Gift -- One Version of Events -- We're Extremely Fortunate |
| Summary |
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 with a decapitated dog; a postcard from a sister who has "much to tell"; the discovery of a new star; the irrationality of love; the infinity of [pi] |
| Subject |
Szymborska, Wisława, 1923- -- Translations into English.
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Szymborska, Wisława -- Translations into English.
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| Author |
Barańczak, Stanisław, 1946-2014.
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Cavanagh, Clare.
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| LC no. |
94036112 |
| ISBN |
0151001537 |
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0156002167 (paperback) |
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