A review by sookieskipper
View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Stanisław Barańczak, Wisława Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh

3.0

Quite decent collection with handpicked poems from different collection. Slightly underwhelming but still manages to pack a punch every now and then.
Few memorable lines:
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Travel Elegy
Salutation and farewell
in a single glance.
For surplus and absence alike,
a single motion of the neck

The joy of writing
The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.

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Sell me your soul.
There are no other takers.
 
There is no other devil anymore.

In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself
On this third planet of the sun
among the signs of bestiality
a clear conscience is Number One.

Pi
The pageant of digits comprising the number pi
doesn’t stop at the page’s edge.

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