wisława szymborska map collected and last poems

Nobel Prize-winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour.

One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. A collected volume from the Nobel Prize-winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection. Mapis the first English publication of Szymborska s work since the acclaimed Here, and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her ironic elegance ( The New Yorker).' From the Back Cover:īook Description Paperback. Of the approximately two hundred fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated thirteen represent the entirety of the poet s last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in English.

But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.Ĭarefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Maptrace Szymborska s work until her death in 2012. If you want the world in a nutshell, a Polish critic has remarked, try Szymborska. With unexpected humor, her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. One of Europe s greatest poets, Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska was also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Ī new collected volume from the Nobel Prize winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection Her wry acceptance of life’s folly remain her strongest weapon against tyranny and bad taste.” “Her poems offer a restorative wit as playful as it is steely and as humble as it is wise. Map offers Szymborska’s devoted readers a welcome return to her “ironic elegance” ( The New Yorker).

Of the approximately two hundred fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated thirteen represent the entirety of the poet’s last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in English. “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarked, “try Szymborska.” But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.Įdited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, Map traces Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. One of Europe’s greatest poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. There’s no better place for those unfamiliar with her work to begin.” “Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the end. is the best of the Western mind-free, restless, questioning.” - New York Times Book Review

Wisława szymborska map collected and last poems