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By: Wislawa Szymborska

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

A remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.

In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life''s improbability as well as its transient beauty.

"Wislawa Szymborska is not only one of the finest poets living today, but also one of the most readable. In these dazzling new translations Baranczak and Cavanaugh convey the full range of her wit and humor in poems that read as if they were written in English.” -Charles Simic

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Brueghel's Two Monkeys	p. 3
Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition	p. 4
Nothing Twice	p. 6
Museum	p. 11
A Moment in Troy	p. 12
Clochard	p. 15
Vocabulary	p. 17
Travel Elegy	p. 18
An Unexpected Meeting	p. 20
Rubens' Women	p. 21
Coloratura	p. 23
Bodybuilders' Contest	p. 25
Poetry Reading	p. 26
The Tower of Babel	p. 27
Water	p. 28
Conversation with a Stone	p. 30
The Joy of Writing	p. 35
Landscape	p. 37
Family Album	p. 39
The Railroad Station	p. 40
Born	p. 42
Soliloquy for Cassandra	p. 45
A Byzantine Mosaic	p. 47
Beheading	p. 50
Pieta	p. 51
Returning Birds	p. 52
Thomas Mann	p. 53
Tarsier	p. 55
The Acrobat	p. 57
A Palaeolithic Fertility Fetish	p. 58
No End of Fun	p. 60
Could Have	p. 65
Theatre Impressions	p. 67
Voices	p. 69
The Letters of the Dead	p. 71
Advertisement	p. 72
Going Home	p. 74
Discovery	p. 75
Dinosaur Skeleton	p. 77
Birthday	p. 79
Allegro ma non troppo	p. 80
Autotomy	p. 82
Frozen Motion	p. 84
The Classic	p. 85
In Praise of Dreams	p. 87
True Love	p. 89
Under One Small Star	p. 91
A Large Number	p. 95
Thank-You Note	p. 97
Psalm	p. 99
Lot's Wife	p. 101
Seen from Above	p. 103
Experiment	p. 104
Smiles	p. 106
The Terrorist, He's Watching	p. 108
A Medieval Miniature	p. 110
In Praise of My Sister	p. 112
Hermitage	p. 114
Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem	p. 116
Warning	p. 118
The Onion	p. 120
The Suicide's Room	p. 122
In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself	p. 124
On the Banks of the Styx	p. 125
Utopia	p. 127
Pi	p. 129
Archeology	p. 133
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Clothes	p. 137
On Death, without Exaggeration	p. 138
In Broad Daylight	p. 141
Our Ancestors' Short Lives	p. 143
Hitler's First Photograph	p. 145
The Century's Decline	p. 147
Children of Our Age	p. 149
Tortures	p. 151
Plotting with the Dead	p. 153
Writing a Resume	p. 155
Funeral	p. 157
An Opinion on the Question of Pornography	p. 159
A Tale Begun	p. 161
Into the Ark	p. 163
Miracle Fair	p. 165
The People on the Bridge	p. 167
Sky	p. 173
No Title Required	p. 175
The End and the Beginning	p. 178
Hatred	p. 181
Reality Demands	p. 184
Elegiac Calculation	p. 187
Cat in an Empty Apartment	p. 189
Parting with a View	p. 191
Seance	p. 194
Love at First Sight	p. 197
May 16, 1973	p. 199
Maybe All This	p. 201
Slapstick	p. 203
Nothing's a Gift	p. 206
One Version of Events	p. 208
We're Extremely Fortunate	p. 213
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