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Miracle Fair
Wislawa Szymborska · 2002 · 159 pages
"Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best."—Harvard Book Review
Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary.
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David Mitchell
“The poetry of Szymborska, a Polish Nobel laureate, is droll, conversational, intimate, and life-affirming in a vinegary sort of way. Who cares if poetry is impossible to translate, when the results are this lucid, this memorable? Two or three to be taken every night, before sleep.”↗