Wislawa Szymborska

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...

In this witty how-to guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labours of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave—anonymously—for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life. She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing...

This pocketable volume presents a fresh introduction to the vivid and surprising work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet. how cunningly he weaves himself through his own former shape and works to seize this swaying world by stretching out the arms he has conceived - beautiful beyond belief at this passing at this very passing moment that's just passed. These intimate,...