Book Description
Provides one hundred poems including the author's "View with a Grain of Sand," and sixty-four newly-translated selections.
Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780156011464
Provides one hundred poems including the author's "View with a Grain of Sand," and sixty-four newly-translated selections.
Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780156002165
From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.
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Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1957-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385076967
"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasured for over 60 years, here is the only poetry collection your family needs—brimming with favorite, classic poems carefully selected to inspire young readers. Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry. "If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."—Kirkus "A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."—Library Journal "This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."—The Horn Book
Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0544126025
Collects translations of poems from throughout the author's career, including several new translations, including her entire final collection in English for the first time.
Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 054736461X
A collection of more than twenty-five poems by Nobel Prize-winnning author Wisława Szymborska, including the title selection in which she examines life on Earth.
Author : Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0691213046
Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English, with particular emphasis on the period since 1967. They illustrate virtually all her major themes and most of her important techniques. Describing Szymborka's poetry, Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire write that her verse is marked by high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. She writes of the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, taking delight in observing and naming its phenomena. She looks on with wonder, astonishment, and amusement, but almost never with despair.
Author : Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0544618858
"Unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with." —Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading." As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811211734
Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.
Author : Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2002-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393323854
Samples the full range of Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, history lessons unlearned, our parochial human perspective, humanity's place in the cosmos, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a humanitarian graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary in life and language.
Author : Thomas Lux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780395924884
One of the New York Public Library's 25 "Books to Remember" in 1997 Lux comments on the absurd, the pathetic, and the commonplace in our culture, writing with compassion as well as satire. He is "singular among his peers in his ability to convey with a deceptive lightness the paradoxes of human emotion," says Publishers Weekly, and Robert Hass, in the Washington Post Book World, takes special note of Lux's "bitter wit, the kind of irony that comes with a quick, impatient intelligence."