POETRY MONDAY : February 6, 2012
Those of us who love poetry – and I assume that’s all of our readers – must have been saddened by the news that we have lost another luminary. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died on February 1 of this year at the age of 88.
There hasn’t been enough time to get permission to re-print her poems or her photo here, but I can recommend a definitive collection of her work. Poems New and Collected 1957-1997, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, won the 1996 PEN Translation Prize and was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1998. Because she published so few poems in Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 6, 2012









