Wislawa Szymborska: Monologue of a Dog, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"A Szymborska poem is always charming, wonderfully charming, charming as a small child singing, charming as a great pop-song lyric. But her poems are also, to use an old word, 'deep,' mysteriously so, about the very nature of existence." - Adam Gopnick, the New Yorker

From the Nobel Prize winner, a classic collection of witty, compassionate, contemplative, and always surprising poems

In Monologue of a Dog, Wisława Szymborska writes with her signature mix of intellect and humor about everything from love unremembered to keys lost in the grass, finding in the smallest moments a path to the vast questions of human existence. What begins as a passing thought ends, in her hands, as an x-ray of the human condition. This bilingual edition, featuring a foreword by Billy Collins, is a perfect introduction for new readers and an essential companion for devoted fans.

EVERYTHING

Everything-

a bumptious, stuck-up word.

It should be written in quotes.

It pretends to miss nothing,

to gather, hold, contain, and have.

While all the while it's just

a shred of a gale.