View with a Grain of Sand
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Nobel laureate Symborska takes on current events and ancient conundrums in this elegant, terse new collection. The title abbreviates the opening poem, "Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History": the dog stands for all the citizens who served, or simply failed to resist, dictators, then wondered at the revolutions that displaced them. Other poems consider wartime victims: "What if... I'd been born/ in the wrong tribe,/ with all roads closed before me?" One poem perhaps destined for widespread reprinting depicts with tact and awe the jumping, falling casualties of September 11. Yet Symborska (View with a Grain of Sand) also excels with slower, less topical concerns. "Joy and sorrow," she explains, "aren't two different feelings" for the human soul; rather, the soul "attends us/ only when the two are joined." Symborska and her translators (the Polish is on facing pages) achieve a diction suited to her drily understated wisdom, and some of her work may be quoted far and wide; "Life is the only way," another poem advises, "to get covered in leaves,/ catch your breath on the sand,/ rise on wings." (Nov.)
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Wislawa Szymborska
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Estimated Reading Time: 3 hrs. 10 min.Page Number: 112Publication Date: November 2005Publisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN: 9780547546292Country: TürkiyeLanguage: TürkçeFormat: Karton kapak
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Wislawa SzymborskaYazar · 8 books
Wisława Szymborska, Polonyalı şair, makale yazarı ve çevirmentir Zbigniew Herbert ve Tadeusz Różewicz ile birlikte çağdaş Polonya şiirinin önde gelen temsilcilerinden kabul edilir. 1996'da Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü'nü aldı. Polonya'da kitapları, ünlü şair yazarlara rakip satışlara ulaşıyor.
