View with a Grain of Sand Wislawa Szymborska

Name: View with a Grain of Sand By Wislawa Szymborska
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View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska

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Summary

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.

View with a Grain of Sand Summary

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska

About Wislawa Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska was born in Bnin, Poland, in 1923, and has lived in Krakow since 1931. She studied at Krakow University and worked at Zycie Literackie, the literary journal, as poetry editor and columnist from 1950 to 1981. She has published many collections of poetry, and has been awarded the Goethe Prize (1991), the Herder Prize (1995), the Polish PEN prize (1996) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1996). View with a Grain of Sand (1996) and Poems, New and Collected (1999) are both published by Faber.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001358076

ISBN 13

9780571191635

ISBN 10

0571191630

Title

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska

Author

Wislawa Szymborska

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

1996-10-23

Number of pages

224

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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