Map: Collected and Last Poems

Wislawa Szymborska (Author) Clare Cavanagh (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0544126025 / ISBN 13: 9780544126022

Verlag: Ecco, 2016

New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (5.31 x 1.19 x 8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Translated from Polish. Includes translation credits and an index of titles and first lines. A beautiful collection of the author's poetry. 464 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize-winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection. One of Europe's greatest poets, Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska was also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. With unexpected humor, her elegant, precise, poems pose questions we never thought to ask. "If you want the world in a nutshell," a Polish critic has remarked, "try Szymborska." but the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew. Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska's work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirely of the poet's last Polish collection, "Enough", never before published in English. Map is the first English publication of Szymborska's work since the acclaimed Here, and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her "ironic elegance" (The New Yorker). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 201099

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A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection

One of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarks, “try Szymborska.” But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.

Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems inMap trace Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred and fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirety of the poet’s last Polish collection,Enough, never before published in English.
Map is the first English publication of Szymborska’s work since the acclaimedHere, and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her “ironic elegance” (The New Yorker).

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Praise for Wislawa Szymborksa:

Extremely smart, witty, and level-headed, [Szymborska] seduces us with her wide range of interests, her atypical lack of narcissism for a poet, and her cheerful pessimism. New York Review of Books

Her poems offer a restorative wit as playful as it is steely and as humble as it is wise. Most poets jostle for center stage, but Szymborska looks on from afar, her wry acceptance of life s folly remaining her strongest weapon against tyranny and bad taste. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Refreshingly direct but always surprising, her poems keep taking us to further, unexpected perspectives. O, the Oprah Magazine
Dark, complex, and profoundly intelligent. Washington Post

[She] captures the nightmarish contingency of human survival, and the human callousness toward nature, with an ironic elegance miraculously free of bitterness. The New Yorker

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Map: Collected and Last Poems
Verlag: Ecco
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New
Auflage: Reprint.