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This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition. She is one of a generation of Polish poets which witnessed the years of Soviet oppression and spoke for the feelings of the Polish people.
"In these dazzling new translations, Baranczak and Cavanagh convey the full range of the authors wit and humour in poems that read as if they were written in English". Pp 214, name to fep. P/b, slight creasing to spine, illustrated cover. G+. 
Nobel Prize Winner, 1996. Very good reading copy with clean text throughout. Wraps. 
Trade paperback. Very good condition; edges, corners, and covers of book show minor wear and discoloration. No underlining; no highlighting; no internal markings except for previous owner's name on ffep or inside front cover. In sealed plastic protection. 1996. Trade paperback. 
Includes index. Very light wear to cover, tight binding, smooth spine. clean, unmarked, uncreased text. 
Selected poems of Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996; covers the period 1957-1993, with poems from Calling Out To Yeti, Salt, No End of Fun, Could Have, A Large Number, The People on the Bridge, and The End and the Beginning; translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh; this copy has the former owner's bookplate to verso of front cover, o.w. Very Good. 
Selected Poems. Fine and bright stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Handsome all around. 
Photo-illustrated wraps. Some mild wear and scuffing. May have some shelf wear. 
In these 100 poems, the Nobel Prize Winner portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With accurate irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty. Translated into English from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. 
In these 100 poems, the Nobel Prize Winner portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With accurate irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty. Translated into English from the Polish by Stanislaw baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. 