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Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts
Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska - Bilingual Edition
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This collection is ideal for poetry enthusiasts, students of modern European literature, and readers interested in profound yet accessible reflections on the human experience.
Features seventy poems that are among the largest and most representative offering of Wislawa Szymborska's work with particular emphasis on the period since 1967. Describing Szymborka's poetry, this book shows that her verse is marked by high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill.
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Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts, translated and introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, is regarded as one of the finest examples of the post-World War II Polish poetic tradition. Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is described by the translators as "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land."
This bilingual edition includes seventy poems, providing one of the largest and most representative compilations of her work available in English, with a particular focus on the period since 1967. These poems encapsulate virtually all her major themes and showcase her important techniques.
In describing Szymborska's poetry, Krynski and Maguire highlight its high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. Her verse celebrates the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, taking delight in observing and naming its phenomena. Szymborska's perspective is one of wonder, astonishment, and amusement, almost never tinged with despair.
Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
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The Washington Post Book World praises Szymborska as an ironist whose plain yet powerful verse embodies the survival of both conscience and imagination over recent decades.
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ISBN: 9780691013800
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 August 1981
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: Bilingual Edition
Contributors:
- Edited and translated by Magnus J. Krynski
- Edited and translated by Robert A. Maguire
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 255g
Pages: 232
About the Author
Wisawa Szymborska (19232012), winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator.
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