Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska - Bilingual Edition

Wislawa Szymborska

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Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts

Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska - Bilingual Edition

Wislawa Szymborska
Edited by: Magnus J. Krynski , Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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From Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska, a dazzling bilingual collection of verse that reveals her signature themes and techniques

Sounds, Feelings, and Thoughts is a superb introduction to the work of Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), who is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets since World War II. Carefully selected and skillfully translated by Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire, this book presents a broad and representative selection of Szymborska’s poetry and features the original Polish poems on pages facing the English translations. The book demonstrates the hallmarks of Szymborska’s verse—high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. Writing of the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, she takes delight in observing and naming its phenomena, looking on with wonder, astonishment, and amusement.

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"[Szymborska] is like so many Eastern European writers, an ironist. She writes, especially in her later years, a plain, almost bony verse, and she can stand for the survival, not just of the conscience but of imagination, in this last half-century."

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SPIS TREŚCI / Table of Contents
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TRANSLATORS' INTRODUCTION
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z TOMIKU Woianie do Yeti (1957) / FROM Calling Out to Yeti (1957)
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z TOMIKU Sol (1962) / FROM Salt (1962)
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z TOMIKU Sto pociech (1967) / FROM A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope (1967)
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z TOMIKU Wszelki wypadek (1972) / FROM There But for the Grace (1972)
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z TOMIKU Wielka liczba (1976) / FROM A Great Number (1976)
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z TYGODNIKA Zycie literackie (1979) / FROM Literary Life (1979)
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Comments
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Bibliographical Note
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THE LOCKERT LIBRARY OF POETRY IN TRANSLATION
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May 18, 2020

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9780691213040

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691213040

eBook ISBN: 9780691213040

Keywords for this book

Poetry; Newspaper; Prose; Tarsier; Autotomy; Bread; Cartilage; Chemise; Curtsey; Cuttlefish; Electricity; Eyelash; Fisherman; Fountain pen; Freckle; Greeting; Hamster; Homeostasis; Knife; My Father; Pallor; Physiology; Pince-nez; Salvation; Sea; Straw; Stucco; Toy balloon; Territorial waters; Privet; Marge Piercy; Proverb; Edmund Keeley; S. (Dorst novel); Irony; Polish literature; Jan Kochanowski; The Various; Writer; Maxine Kumin; Adage; Internal rhyme; Superiority (short story); Simile; Safety pin; Blaise Cendrars; Romanticism; Anne Sexton; Comb; Cyprian Norwid; Philip Sherrard; Adrienne Rich; Julian Tuwim; Theatrum Mundi; Memoir; Charles Baudelaire; Contemporary society; Boredom; Writing; Sentimentalism (literature); Sentimentality; Swinging (sexual practice); F. E. Halliday; Colloquialism; Seriousness; Poet; Ode to Joy; Literature; Penguin Books; Free verse

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For a non-specialist adult audience

Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts

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About this book

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

SPIS TREŚCI / Table of Contents

TRANSLATORS' INTRODUCTION

z TOMIKU Woianie do Yeti (1957) / FROM Calling Out to Yeti (1957)

z TOMIKU Sol (1962) / FROM Salt (1962)

z TOMIKU Sto pociech (1967) / FROM A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope (1967)

z TOMIKU Wszelki wypadek (1972) / FROM There But for the Grace (1972)

z TOMIKU Wielka liczba (1976) / FROM A Great Number (1976)

z TYGODNIKA Zycie literackie (1979) / FROM Literary Life (1979)

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Bibliographical Note

THE LOCKERT LIBRARY OF POETRY IN TRANSLATION

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