View with a grain of sand
Subtitle: selected poems
By: Wisława Szymborska ; translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.
Contributors: Barańczak, Stanisław, 1946-; Cavanagh, Clare.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Szymborska, Wisława -- Translations into English
Description: 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].