Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska (Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborksa)

Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska (Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborksa)

by Czeslaw Milosz (Author), Czeslaw Milosz (Author), Wislawa Szymborska (Author), Joanna Trzeciak (Author)

Synopsis

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01 Nov 2002

ISBN 10: 0393323854
ISBN 13: 9780393323856
Book Overview: Wislawa Szymborska is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and her translator, Joanna Trzeciak is the winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation in Slavic Studies.

Author Bio
Wislawa Szymborska was born in Western Poland in 1923. Her poems have been translated (and published in book form) in many international languages. She is the Goethe Prize winner (1991) and Herder Prize winner (1995). She has a degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters of Poznan University (1995). In 1996 she received the Polish PEN Club prize, and is the1996 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Joanna Trzeciak's translations include Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Heldt Translation Prize. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.