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PRAISE FOR WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA ""She teaches us how the world defies and evades the names we give it.""--Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Magazine ""[Szymborska] is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with.""--Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World ""Wislawa Szymborska is not only one of the finest poets living today, but also one of the most readable.""--Charles Simic --

""Wislawa Szymborska is a philosophically inflected poet who investigates large, unanswerable questions with terrific élan and delicacy."" - Washington Post She teaches us how the world defies and evades the names we give it. And that, too, is something of a miracle. - Edward Hirsch, The New York Times ""Szymborska is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with. - Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World Wislawa Szymborska is not only one of the finest poets living today, but also one of the most readable. - Charles Simic

PRAISE FOR WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA ""She teaches us how the world defies and evades the names we give it.""--Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Magazine ""[Szymborska] is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with.""--Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World ""Wislawa Szymborska is not only one of the finest poets living today, but also one of the most readable.""--Charles Simic

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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (1923-2012) was born in Poland and worked as a poetry editor, translator, and columnist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. Her books include View with a Grain of Sand, Here, The Acrobat, Monologue of a Dog, and Map: Collected and Last Poems, and Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997.

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