View with a grain of sand : selected poems, Wisława Szymborska ; translated from the Polish by Stanisław Bara?czak and Clare Cavanagh

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View with a grain of sand : selected poems, Wisława Szymborska ; translated from the Polish by Stanisław Bara?czak and Clare Cavanagh

Title remainder

selected poems

Statement of responsibility

Wisława Szymborska ; translated from the Polish by Stanisław Bara?czak and Clare Cavanagh

Instantiates

• View with a grain of sand : selected poems

Publication

• New York, Harcourt Brace & Co., ©1995

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volume

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

from Calling out to Yeti 1957 : Brueghel's two monkeys -- Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan expedition -- Nothing twice -- from Salt 1962 : Museum -- A moment in Troy -- Clochard -- Vocabulary -- Travel elegy -- An unexpected meeting -- Rubens' women -- Coloratura -- Bodybuilders' contest -- Poetry reading -- The tower of Babel -- Water -- Conversation with a stone -- from No end of fun 1967 : The joy of writing -- Landscape -- Family album -- The railroad station -- Born -- Soliloquy for Cassandra -- A Byzantine mosaic -- Beheading -- Pieta -- Returning birds -- Thomas Mann -- Tarsier -- The acrobat -- A Palaeolithic fertility fetish -- No end of fun -- from Could have 1972 : Could have -- Theatre impressions -- Voices -- The letters of the dead -- Advertisement -- Going home -- Discovery -- Dinosaur skeleton -- Birthday -- Allegro ma non troppo -- Autotomy -- Frozen motion -- The classic -- In praise of dreams -- True love -- Under one small star -- from A large number 1976 : A large number -- Thank-you note -- Psalm -- Lot's wife -- Seen from above -- Experiment -- Smiles -- The terrorist, he's watching -- A medieval miniature -- In praise of my sister -- Hermitage -- Evaluation of an unwritten poem -- Warning -- The onion -- The suicide's room -- In praise of feeling bad about yourself -- On the banks of the Styx -- Utopia -- Pi -- from The people on the bridge 1986 : Archeology -- View with a grain of sand -- Clothes -- On death, without exaggeration -- In broad daylight -- Our ancestors' short lives -- Hitler's first photograph -- The century's decline -- Children of our age -- Tortures -- Plotting with the dead -- Writing a resume -- Funeral -- An opinion on the question of pornography -- A tale begun -- Into the ark -- Miracle fair -- The people on the bridge -- from The end and the beginning 1993 : Sky -- No title required -- The end and the beginning -- Hatred -- Reality demands -- Elegiac calculation -- Cat in an empty apartment -- Parting with a view -- Seance -- Love at first sight -- May 16, 1973 -- Maybe all this -- Slapstick -- Nothing's a gift -- One version of events -- We're extremely fortunate

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22 cm.

Edition

First edition

Extent

ix, 214 pages

Isbn

9780151001538

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94036112

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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222150

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• (OCoLC)ocm31132779
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