From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity,

From one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity

Selection of poetry of Szymborska - pronounced Shimboorska - the Polish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Samples the full range of Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, history lessons unlearned, our parochial human perspe

Provides one hundred poems including the author's "View with a Grain of Sand," and sixty-four newly-translated selections.