The End and the Beginning
from Miracle Fair:
Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska
translated by Joanna Trzeciak Online Bookstore Listing
Wislawa Szymborska: Joanna Trzeciak: Joanna Trzeciak's translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly , and other magazines. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago.
About Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska In awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, the Swedish Academy praised Wislawa Szymborska for her breadth of inspiration and stylistic grace. Here, in this long-awaited volume of selected poems, translator Joanna Trzeciak samples the full range of Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, history lessons unlearned, our parochial human perspective and the admirable desire to transcend it, the wonders of nature's beauty and bounty, the place of humanity in the cosmos, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, of a humanitarian attuned to human flaws and flourishes in equal measure, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with the gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary both in life and in language.
Edward Hirsch
Richard Wilbur
"Translations (Trzeciak is the fourth, I think, to give us a Szymborska in English) are the sign of a poet's continuing vitality, and by the latest evidence, this Tragic Comedian is close-mouthed with vehement life, as she might say. Each new poem won for our idiom (and there are many here) is to be relished: a punctual delight." | |
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