A review by katcic
View With a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska

I'm not going to give this book a star rating simply because my gut feeling is that so much is lost in the translation of these poems, that they are impossible to comment on without being negative. She won the Nobel Prize and so I think that the poetry must be wonderful in the original language but I was left cold. Not by the feelings or sentiments expressed (they are wonderful musings on the human condition) but the fact that they read like prose compositions put into poetic forms (if that makes sense). There's just nothing in the translation to keep a sense of poetic form.