Three Hundred Fifty Poems in a Lifetime
On October 3, 1996, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Wisława Szymborska of Kraków, Poland, praising her poetry's "ironic precision." What...
This is a contemporary on wonder and attention, drawing on Ecclesiastes 3:11.
On October 3, 1996, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Wisława Szymborska of Kraków, Poland, praising her poetry's "ironic precision." What stunned many was not only the honor but the body of work behind it. In nearly five decades of writing, Szymborska had published roughly three hundred fifty poems — fewer than most poets produce in a single decade.…
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