Miracle Fair: Selected Poems
"Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best."—Harvard Book ReviewWinner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes:...
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"Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best."—Harvard Book ReviewWinner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393323856 (0393323854)
ASIN: 393323854
Publish date: November 17th 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 159
Edition language: English
My professor recommended I read this collection after I expressed an interest in Milosz’s work and a specific admiration of his style. Reading “Miracle Fair” was like an exploration of the self. I felt myself get lost in tiny cracks and crevices within and after reemerging there was a certain feelin...
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