num_pages: 214
description: In these one-hundred poems Wisława Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischevious. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiousity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty.
language: English
title: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
genres: 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Polish Literature, Womens, Poland, Poetry, Literature, European Literature, Classics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 4774
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh
publisher: Harcourt Brace