Wislawa Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Poet: An Appreciation

Carla Seaquist | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Arts, Literature, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, Wislawa Szymborska, Wislawa Szymborska Dead, Poems, Poetry, Books News
Carla Seaquist

What I prize most about Wislawa Szymborska is her readiness to confront the big classic themes -- life, death, history, war, reality, love -- and to do so with a voice that combines the fire of the Resistance with a proper humility.

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Remembering A Nobel Prize-Winning Poet

John Lundberg | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Poland, Woody Allen, Wislawa Szymborska, Poets, Sometimes Life Is Bearable, Wislawa Szymborska Died, Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska Dead, Culture News
John Lundberg

The great Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died Wednesday. And while she was never one for travel herself, her poetry did, and it touched millions. Among her admirers was Woody Allen: "She is able to capture the pointlessness and sadness of life, but somehow still be affirmative."

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The 17 Most Important Poetry Books Of Fall 2010

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Irish Poetry, Caribbean Literature, American Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska, Book Publishing, Seamus Heaney, Small Presses, Adonis, Experimental Poetry, African American Poetry, African American Literature, Paul Muldoon, Ezra Pound, Postmodern Literature, Modernist Poetry, Books News
Anis Shivani

There's much to be excited about, and these selections give a fair indication of the presses putting out the most important poetry of the day and the degree of vitality of various poetic styles.

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The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fiction, Prose, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska, Literature, Herta Muller, World War II, Poet, John Lundberg, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).

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