Eternal light
Subtitle: grandparent poems : a twentieth-century American selection
By: edited by Jason Shinder.
Contributors: Shinder, Jason, 1955-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Grandparents -- Poetry; American poetry -- 20th century
Description: By one of Poland's most celebrated poets, a collection of poems remarkable for their graceful lyricism, inventiveness, and wit.

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.

The ruins of Troy; sunlight gleaming on a pewter jug; birds returning in the spring; the Abominable Snowman lurking in the Himalayas; a body-building contest; a symphony; a macabre laboratory experiment with a decapitated dog; a postcard from a sister who has "much to tell"; the discovery of a new star; the irrationality of love; the infinity of [pi]. Szymborska's poetry brilliantly captures the wonder of existence.
Notes: "A harvest original."