View With A Grain Of Sand: Selected Poems - Wisława Szymborska • BookLikes (ISBN:0571191630)

View With A Grain Of Sand: Selected Poems

by: Wisława Szymborska (author)

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SELECTED POEMS BY SZYMBORSKA THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR LITERATURE 1996. THIS IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATED WORKS.

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ISBN: 9780571191635 (0571191630)

Edition language: English

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Classics, Non Fiction, Literature, European Literature, Cultural, Poetry, Nobel Prize, Polish Literature, Poland

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Melody Murray's Books rated it

18 years ago

http://satyridae.booklikes.com Melody Murray's Books 4.0 View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

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Any fault I find with these poems I ascribe to the vagaries of translation. I wish I could read these in the original Polish. Whatever pale echoes these might be, they are yet powerful and true. "This terrifying world is not devoid of charms..."

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Lost in the Stacks rated it

21 years ago

http://kateh.booklikes.com Lost in the Stacks 5.0

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One of my favorites. 'Yeti' and 'Born', especially.

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What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment rated it

56 years ago

http://astrogirl.booklikes.com What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment 5.0 View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

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Part of my most recent poetry binge, I finally got around to reading a Nobel Prize winner who had been on my radar for a while, but I could never find her work in poetry sections of bookstores when I was looking. It's amazing. I can't tell if the poetry is so good because of or in spite of the trans...

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