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A review by greenspe
Here by Wisława Szymborska
4.0
I wouldn't start here if you haven't read anything else of hers, but if you're already a fan, you shouldn't miss it. Just as good as View With A Grain of Sand, but it's pretty short (about 40 pages).
I didn't love some of her new poems featured in the Collected Poems a few years ago and assumed that she had lost some of her energy, but "Here" is imaginative and disquieting enough to fit alongside her best. "In Fact Every Poem" is one of the weirdest she's ever written, a true accomplishment for a woman who has been publishing strange and unsettling poetry for nearly seventy years.
My favorite in this collection was "Teenager".
I didn't love some of her new poems featured in the Collected Poems a few years ago and assumed that she had lost some of her energy, but "Here" is imaginative and disquieting enough to fit alongside her best. "In Fact Every Poem" is one of the weirdest she's ever written, a true accomplishment for a woman who has been publishing strange and unsettling poetry for nearly seventy years.
My favorite in this collection was "Teenager".