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Map: Collected and Last Poems - Wisława Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisław Barańczak
Map: Collected and Last Poems
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A 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 collectionOne of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with... show more
A 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 collectionOne of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarks, “try Szymborska.” But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew. Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred and 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. Map is 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).
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780544126022 (0544126025)
ASIN: 0544126025
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics, Poetry
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5.0 Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
Map spans Polish Nobel laureate Szymborska's work from the 1940s up until 2011. Her poetry is immediately engaging, often funny, and down-to-earth. She writes about the smallest subjects (a cat alone in its owner's home) and the largest (mortality, time). She'd be an excellent poet to read if one is...
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This is one of my Reading Nobel Women books, a complete collection of Wislawa Szymborska's work, and it was amazing. As with all collections, there are favorites and then there are those that weren't enough or just not your thing. The book starts off with those poems that, while good, weren't quite ...
Feminism in Cold Storage
Feminism in Cold Storage rated it
4.0 Map: Collected and Last Poems
This is one of my Reading Nobel Women books, a complete collection of Wislawa Szymborska's work, and it was amazing.As with all collections, there are favorites and then there are those that weren't enough or just not your thing. The book starts off with those poems that, while good, weren't quite w...
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