Opis

An exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?” These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on Earth, she remains a virtuoso of form, line, and thought.

From the title poem:

I can’t speak for elsewhere,
but here on Earth we’ve got a fair supply of everything.
Here we manufacture chairs and sorrows,
scissors, tenderness, transistors, violins, teacups, dams, and quips . . .

Like nowhere else, or almost nowhere,
you’re given your own torso here,
equipped with the accessories required
for adding your own children to the rest.
Not to mention arms, legs, and astonished head.

Data wydania: 2010

ISBN: 978-0-547-36461-2, 9780547364612

Język: angielski

Wydawnictwo: Houghton Mifflin Company

Kategoria: Poezja polska

Stron: 85

dodana przez: Vernau

Autor

Wisława Szymborska

Urodzona 2 lipca 1923 roku w Polsce (Kórnik)

Wybitna polska poetka, eseistka, krytyk literacki, tłumaczka i felietonistka. Laureatka Literackiej Nagrody Nobla (1996), odznaczona Orderem Orła Białego (2011). Przez wiele lat związana była z Wydawnictwem Literackim, o którym w 2003 roku z okazji ...