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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.85173
EAN: 9780151012206
ISBN: 0151012202
Label: Harcourt
Manufacturer: Harcourt
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: November 07, 2005
Publisher: Harcourt
Studio: Harcourt
Features:- ISBN13: 9780151012206
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From a writer whom Charles Simic calls "one of the finest poets living" comes a collection of witty, compassionate, contemplative, and always surprising poems. Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass. The poems will appear, for the first time, side by side with the Polish originals, in a book to delight new and old readers alike.
EVERYTHING
Everything-
a bumptious, stuck-up word.
It should be written in quotes.
It pretends to miss nothing,
to gather, hold, contain, and have.
While all the while it's just
a shred of a gale.
(11/01/2005)
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Yet another collection to make me sorry I will never write this well.
:(
But still glad that someone does!
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Featuring both the original Polish text and a full English translation, Monologue Of A Dog is a contemplative poetry collection musing about elements as diverse as unremembered love, mislaid keys in the grass, the district firemen's ball, and the wonders of the cosmos. Author Wislawa Szymborska, who earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, offers poignantly insightful lyrics that cut straight to the emotional quick of the reader. A Memory: We were chatting / and suddenly stopped short. / A ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 895.85173
EAN: 9780151012206
ISBN: 0151012202
Label: Harcourt
Manufacturer: Harcourt
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: November 07, 2005
Publisher: Harcourt
Studio: Harcourt