About this title: Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm. Beautifully translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2000-11-01
ISBN-13:9780156011464ISBN:0156011468
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780156011464ISBN:0156011468
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARCOURT BRACE & CO
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780156011464ISBN:0156011468
Description: New. Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today, " Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. read more
"I don't read so much poetry yet, but Szymborska has the precious gift of writing about everyday things and thoughts in an appealing way.
Her poetry has the power and the strength of simplicity without insisting on metric structures. Reading what Szymborska wrote and writes I have the impression she is a very down to Earth and sensitive person, while most of her colleagues believe to be Words Gods, separated by the rest of the world."
I knock at the stone's front door. "It's only me, let me come in. I want to enter your insides, have a look round, breathe my fill of you."
"Go away," says the stone. "I'm shut tight. Even if you break me to pieces, we'll all still be closed. You can grind us to sand, we still won't let you in."
I knock at the stone's front door. "It's only me, let me come in. I've come out of pure curiosity. Only life can quench it. I mean to stroll through your palace, then go calling on a leaf, a drop of water. I don't have much time. My mortality should touch you."
"I'm made of stone," says the stone, "and must therefore keep a straight face. Go away. I don't have the muscles to laugh."
I knock at the stone's front door. "It's only me, let me come in. I hear you have great empty halls inside you, unseen, their beauty in vain, soundless, not echoing anyone's steps. Admit you don't know them well yourself."
"Great and empty, true enough," says the stone, "but there isn't any room. Beautiful, perhaps, but not to the taste of your poor senses. You may get to know me, but you'll never know me through. My whole surface is turned toward you, all my insides turned away."
I knock at the stone's front door. "It's only me, let me come in. I don't seek refuge for eternity. I'm not unhappy. I'm not homeless. My world is worth returning to. I'll enter and exit empty-handed. And my proof I was there will be only words, which no one will believe."
"You shall not enter," says the stone. "You lack the sense of taking part. No other sense can make up for your missing sense of taking part. Even sight heightened to become all-seeing will do you no good without a sense of taking part. You shall not enter, you have only a sense of what that sense should be, only its seed, imagination."
I knock at the stone's front door. "It's only me, let me come in. I haven't got two thousand centuries, so let me come under your roof."
"If you don't believe me," says the stone, "just ask the leaf, it will tell you the same. Ask a drop of water, it will say what the leaf has said. And, finally, ask a hair from your own head. I am bursting with laughter, yes, laughter, vast laughter, although I don't know how to laugh."
I knock at the stone's front door. "It's only me, let me come in."
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