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Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997 by Szymborska, Wislawa is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, 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 Bara«nczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN Translation Prize for their work, this volume is a must-have for all readers of poetry. Amazon.com Review All poets, according to Wislawa Szymborska, are in a perpetual dialogue with the phrase I don't know . "Each poem," she writes in her 1996 Nobel Lecture, "marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift, absolutely inadequate." As a self-portrait, at least, this is fairly accurate. From the beginning, Szymborska has indeed wrestled with the demon of epistem
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- Author
- Szymborska, Wislawa
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780156011464
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry
- Rating
- 4.42 / 5 (66 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14