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Title: Wislawa Szymborska: ni sí ni no, sino todo lo contrario.(poeta; publicación en castellano de su poemario, Instante)
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Title: Wislawa Szymborska's "The Silence of Plants".(Critical essay)
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Title: La descansada vida. (Wislawa Szymborska, poetisa rusa ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, cita a Montaigne, escritor francés)(TT: The easy life) (TA: Wislawa Szymborska, Russian poet, winner of the Literature Nobel Prize, quotes Montaigne, French writer)
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From the supplier: Wislawa Szymborska's poems are characterized by a miraculous surface beyond which one can unravel the substance that embodies the poet's fertile imagination expressed in a language that is used in interesting ways. Szymborska has a remarkable way of being indirect even when she appears to be direct in her expression of thoughts. She can also make the 'commonplace' sound miraculous and she does it with such skill that the miracle becomes newly astonishing.

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Title: "So these are the Himalayas": the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska.
Author: Jacqueline Osherow
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
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From the supplier: Poets are constantly saying and inspired by the phrase 'I don't know.' Their poems are actually an effort to resolve this statement. Because a poem does not usually yield the answer to their questions, poets become dissatisfied with a previous work and start another poem, a pattern which repeats endlessly for true poets. The result of their self-dissatisfaction is a body of work, a series of poems that mark their attempt to resolve 'I don't know.'

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Title: I don't know: the 1996 Nobel lecture. (Wislawa Szymborska speech)
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
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An especially modest moving and intelligent Nobel Speech
I do not know the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska. But I was deeply impressed by his Nobel Speech. Of all those I have read it seeemed to me the most genuinely modest. It is also generous and considerate. It speaks about the poet's somewhat awkward place in society. It tells of how the 'poet's life' is ordinarily the least capable of arousing general interest, at least in the form of film biography. It also speaks beautifully about the poet as 'inspired. But it does not limit the ranks of the inspired to the artistic alone, but rather includes all those who are called to do some kind of work.
It contains a very persuasive statement about the uniqueness of each person.And how it is the poet's task time and again to write of the uniqueness.
It shows a humble and my mind realistic senseour limitations in knowing the world.
Here is Szymborska's, to my mind very persuasive conclusion.

"Poets, if they're genuine, must also keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvre." ... Read more

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Title: Poesía e historia: Herbert y Szymborska. (Zbigniew Herbert y Wislawa Szymborska, poetas polácos; incluye poemas)(TT: Poetry and history: Herbert and Szynborska) (TA: Zbigniew Herbert and Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poets; includes poetry)
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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pope John Paul Ii, Wisława Szymborska, Wacław Sierpiński, Carl Menger, John Iii Sobieski, Ivo Andrić, Jan Długosz, Conrad Celtes, Antoni Kępiński, Nicolaus Copernicus, Stanisław Koniecpolski, Norman Davies, Bronisław Malinowski, Kazimierz Żorawski, George Zarnecki, Charniele Herring, Jan Kochanowski, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Zvi Zimmerman, Zbigniew Czajkowski, Jan Buzek, Marcin Kromer, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Teofil Żebrawski, Józef Buzek, Klymentiy Sheptytsky, John Cantius, Paulo Szot, Sebastian Petrycy, Krzysztof Zanussi, Mieczysław Domaradzki, Abraomas Kulvietis, Emil Zegadłowicz, Francysk Skaryna, Andrzej Zoll, Leo Sternbach, Pelbartus Ladislaus of Temesvár, Krystyna Chojnicka, Tadeusz Estreicher, Jerzy Adamuszek, Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski, Stanisław Estreicher, Zbigniew Gołąb, Jan Bystroń, Jan Olbrycht, Edward Długajczyk, Jerzy Zathey, Janusz Spyra, Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Juliusz Bardach, Kazimierz Godłowski, Jerzy Hordyński, Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski, Marcin Baran, Kaz Dziamka, Stanisław Sołtys, Ryszard Legutko, Dominic of Prussia. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Venerable Pope John Paul II (Latin: , Italian: , Polish: , French: , German: ), born Karol Józef Wojtya (pronounced ; 18 May 1920 2 April 2005) served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death over 26 years later. His was the second-longest documented pontificate; only Pope Pius IX served longer (St Peter the Apostle is reputed to have served for more than thirty years as the first pontiff; however documentation is too sparse to definitively support this). He has been the only Polish Pope to date, and was the first non-Italian Pope since Dutch Pope Adrian VI in the 1520s. John Paul II has been acclai...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23805 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wisława Szymborska, Bolesław Prus, Zbigniew Herbert, Józef Czapski, Jerzy Zawieyski, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Andrzej Kijowski, Julian Przyboś, Witold Zalewski, Adam Zagajewski, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, Maria Konopnicka, Jan Stanisław Skorupski, Wojciech Żukrowski, Marek Żuławski, Maciej Parowski, Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska, Adolf Rudnicki, Lech Jęczmyk. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Bolesaw Prus (pronounced: ; Hrubieszów, 20 August 1847 19 May 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Gowacki, was the foremost figure in Polish literature of the late 19th century, and a distinctive voice in world literature. He adopted the pen name "Prus" from his family coat-of-arms. An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment. These early experiences may have precipitated the panic disorder and agoraphobia that were to dog him through life. (This was the same uprising whose preparations impinged tragically on the family of Prus' compatriot and fellow future novelist Joseph Conrad.) In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a 40-year journalistic career that focused on science, technology, education, and economic and cultural developmententerprises which retain a universal importance today and which were vital to the survival of a country that had, in the 18th century, been partitioned among three empires. As a sideline, in an effort to appeal to readers' aesthetic sensibilities, Prus wrote short stories. Achieving success with these, he went on to employ a broader canvas: between 1886 and 1895, he completed four major novels on "great questions of our age." Of Prus' novels, two are perenn...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=601880 ... Read more