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By one of Poland's most celebrated poets, a collection of poems remarkable for their graceful lyricism, inventiveness, and wit.
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]. Szymborska's poetry brilliantly captures the wonder of existence.
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Grandparents, Poetry, American poetryTimes
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Eternal light: grandparent poems : a twentieth-century American selection
1995, Harcourt Brace
in English
- 1st ed.
0156000997 9780156000994
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