{"title":"Wislawa Szymborska","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWislawa Szymborska\u003c\/strong\u003e invites readers into a world where the ordinary is illuminated with profound insight and delicate wit. Her works explore the nuances of human experience, capturing sound, feeling, and thought with a poet’s precision and a philosopher’s depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn books like \u003cem\u003eHow to Start Writing (and When to Stop)\u003c\/em\u003e, Szymborska offers reflections on creativity and the artistic process, enriching the Arts \u0026amp; Culture landscape with her timeless voice. Her writing is a celebration of language’s power to reveal the subtle truths of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sounds-feelings-thoughts-by-wislawa-szymborska-9780691013800","title":"Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSounds, Feelings, Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428124606700,"sku":"9780691013800","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691013800.jpg?v=1774767216"},{"product_id":"how-to-start-writing-and-when-to-stop-by-wislawa-szymborska-9780811229715","title":"How to Start Writing (and When to Stop)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this witty \u003cem\u003ehow-to\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eLiterary Life\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly. \"I sigh to be a poet,\" Miss A. P. from Bialogard exclaims. \"I groan to be an editor,\" Szymborska responds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSzymborska stubbornly insists on poetry's \"prosaic side\": \"Let's take the wings off and try writing on foot, shall we?\" This delightful compilation, translated by the peerless Clare Cavanagh, will delight readers and writers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerhaps you could learn to love in prose\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461010309356,"sku":"9780811229715","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811229715-how-to-start-writing-and-when-to-stop.jpg?v=1774956590"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/wislawa-szymborska.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}