Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska

by Wislawa Szymborska, Joanna Trzeciak (Translator), Czeslaw Milosz (Introduction)

Overview

"Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best."—Harvard Book Review

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393323856
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/02/2012
Series:	Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborksa
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Wislawa Szymborska was born in Western Poland in 1923. Her poems have been translated (and published in book form) in many international languages. She is the Goethe Prize winner (1991) and Herder Prize winner (1995). She has a degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters of Poznan University (1995). In 1996 she received the Polish PEN Club prize, and is the 1996 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Joanna Trzeciak's translations include Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the Heldt Translation Prize. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.

Editorial Reviews

What Szymborska calls 'the joy of writing' also becomes,in this book,the joy of reading.

Edward Hirsch

Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best.

Harvard Book Review