View with a grain of sand : selected poems / Wislawa Szymborska ; translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szymborska, Wisława.

Contributor:

Barańczak, Stanisław, 1946-2014.

Cavanagh, Clare.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Szymborska, Wisława--Translations into English.

Szymborska, Wisława.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

ix, 214 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace and Co., 1995.

Summary:

In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty. The ruins of Troy; sunlight gleaming on a pewter jug; birds returning in the spring; the Abominable Snowman lurking in the Himalayas; a body-building contest; a symphony; a macabre laboratory experiment with a decapitated dog; a postcard from a sister who has "much to tell"; the discovery of a new star; the irrationality of love; the infinity of (pi).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151001537

0156002167

OCLC:

31132779