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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
View with a Grain of Sand Selected Poems Author:Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisł, aw Barań, czak (Translator), Clare Cavanagh (Translator) 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 Cla... more »re Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.
Contents:
From Calling out to Yeti 1957: Brueghel's two monkeys; Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan expedition; Nothing twice --
From Salt 1962: Museum; A moment in Troy; Clochard; Vocabulary; Travel elegy; An unexpected meeting; Rubens' women; Colorature; Bodybuilders' contest; Poetry reading; Tower of Babel; Water; Conversation with a stone --
From No end of fun 1967: Joy of writing; Landscape; Family album; Railroad station; Born; Soliloquy for Cassandra; A Byzantine mosaic; Beheading; Pieta; Returning birds; Thomas Mann; Tarsier; Acrobat; A paleolithic fertility fetish; No end of fun --
From Could have, 1972: Could have; Theatre impressions; Voices; Letters of the dead; Advertisement; Going home; Discovery; Dinosaur skeleton; Birthday; Allegro ma non troppo; Autonomy; Frozen motion; Classic; In praise of dreams; True love; Under one small star --
From A large number 1976: A large number; Thank-you note; Psalm; Lot's wife; Seen from above; Experiment; Smiles; The terrorist, he's watching; A medieval miniature; In praise of my sister; Hermitage; Evaluation of an unwritten poem; Warning; Onion; Suicide's room; In praise of feeling bad about yourself; On the banks of the Styx; Utopia; Pi --
From The people on the bridge 1986: Archeology; View with grain of sand; Clothes; On death, without exaggeration; In broad daylight; Our ancestors' short lives; Hitler's first photography; Century's decline; Children of our age; Tortures; Plotting with the dead; Writing a resume; Funeral; An opinion on the question of pornography; A tale begun; Into the ark; Miracle Fair; People on the bridge --
From The end and the beginning 1993: Sky; No title required; End and the beginning; Hatred; Reality demands; Elegiac calculation; Cat in an empty apartment; Parting with a view; Seance; Love at first sight; May 16, 11973; Maybe all this; Slapstick; Nothing's a gift; One version of events; We're extremely fortunate.