by Wisława Szymborska
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..."
One of my favorites. 'Yeti' and 'Born', especially.
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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