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A review by cythera15
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Stanisław Barańczak, Wisława Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh
5.0
A stranger recommended Szymborska's work to me. But I quite got around reading her, until I found this copy on an online second-hand bookstore.
It was a great read. Really does "read as if they were written in English". I wonder how that was possible at all.
I would definitely re-read this book. I've been copying some of the poems onto my Evernote/blue notebook. I would continue to do so. I see that Dartmouth owns some other Szymborska's poetry. I am ever looking forward to reading them.
She is absolutely imaginative, very witty but with something dreadful lurking in the background. She also seems to play around with the idea of anti-existence quite frequently. And in doing so, she successfully defies the dichotomy that dominated (and still does) the 20th century.
I really wish I could read her in Polish one day.
It was a great read. Really does "read as if they were written in English". I wonder how that was possible at all.
I would definitely re-read this book. I've been copying some of the poems onto my Evernote/blue notebook. I would continue to do so. I see that Dartmouth owns some other Szymborska's poetry. I am ever looking forward to reading them.
She is absolutely imaginative, very witty but with something dreadful lurking in the background. She also seems to play around with the idea of anti-existence quite frequently. And in doing so, she successfully defies the dichotomy that dominated (and still does) the 20th century.
I really wish I could read her in Polish one day.