Szymborska, Wislawa

New York. 2001. April 2001. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0393049396. Translated from the Polish and with Notes by Joanna Trzeciak. Foreword by Czeslaw Milosz. 159 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt. Jacket painting: ‘Birch Trees’ by Arkhip Kuinji. keywords: Poetry Poland Women Literature Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, the Swedish Academy praised Wislava Szymborska for her breadth of inspiration and stylistic grace. Here, in this long-awaited volume of selected poems, translator Joanna Trzeciak samples the full range of Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, history lessons unlearned our parochial human perspective and the admirable desire to transcend it, the wonders of nature's beauty and bounty, the place of humanity in the cosmos, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive of a humanitarian attuned to human flaws and flourishes in equal measure, self deprecating in its wit, yet graced with the gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary both in life and in language. inventory #12313 ISBN: 0393049396.