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Mariner Books

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

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  • Author: Wislawa Szymborska
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Published: 1995-05-26
  • Edition: 1st
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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).

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