A Meeting with Wisława Szymborska- Documentary The film is a journey through Poland and the city of Kraków, guided by the Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska. A quest for the ‘fragments of human existence’, which she digs up and polishes into shining nuggets of poetry. Wisława Szymborska is a poet who doesn’t [...]
Once again Wisława Szymborska’s poem , which opens up questions and paradoxes, while appearing to solve them, hovering between realist representation and idealist critique .. Hard Life with Memory I’m a poor audience for my memory. She wants me to attend her voice nonstop, but I fidget, fuss, listen and don’t, step out, come back, [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 02 Feb 2012
The cherished Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska passed away on Wednesday evening at her home in Kraków at the age of 89 “In Szymborska’s poetry, we divide ourselves not into body and surviving work but into body and unfinished whisper, poetry is no more than an unfinished whisper, laughter that swiftly falls [...]
I return to Wislawa Szymborska’s seemingly simple verses which deal with the profoundness in life through small details of daily existence… ABC I’ll never find out now What A. thought of me. If B. ever forgave me in the end. Why C. pretended everything was fine. What part D. played in E.’s silence. What F. [...]
Books &Poetry Entropy | 07 Jan 2011
In the words of the Poet Edward Hirsch – ” She teaches us how the World defies and evades the names we give it “ A new book of poems by Wislawa Szymborska is a rare and exciting event. When recently her Book “ Here “ was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that [...]
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. Dreams Despite the geologists’ knowledge and craft, mocking magnets, graphs, and maps— in a [...]