The Poet Who Built Her Life on "I Don't Know
On December 7, 1996, Wisława Szymborska stood before the Swedish Academy in Stockholm to deliver her Nobel lecture. The Polish poet — so private she...
This is a contemporary on wonder and attention, drawing on Psalm 8:3-4.
On December 7, 1996, Wisława Szymborska stood before the Swedish Academy in Stockholm to deliver her Nobel lecture. The Polish poet — so private she rarely gave interviews — had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry that, in the Academy's words, displayed "ironic precision." But the seventy-three-year-old from Kraków did not use her moment on the world stage to display precision.…
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