{"product_id":"map-collected-and-last-poems-paperback","title":"Map: Collected and Last Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWislawa Szymborska\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Both plain-spoken and luminous . . . [Szymborska's] is the best of the Western mind--free, restless, questioning.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eEditors' Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the end. There's no better place for those unfamiliar with her work to begin.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One of Europe's greatest poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. \"If you want the world in a nutshell,\" a Polish critic remarked, \"try Szymborska.\" But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ​Edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, \u003cem\u003eMap\u003c\/em\u003e traces Szymborska's work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirety of the poet's last Polish collection, \u003cem\u003eEnough, \u003c\/em\u003e never before published in English. \u003cem\u003eMap \u003c\/em\u003eoffers Szymborska's devoted readers a welcome return to her \"ironic elegance\" (\u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Her poems offer a restorative wit as playful as it is steely and as humble as it is wise . . . Her wry acceptance of life's folly remain[s] her strongest weapon against tyranny and bad taste.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collected volume from the Nobel Prize winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One of Europe s greatest poets, Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska was also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. With unexpected humor, her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. If you want the world in a nutshell, a Polish critic has remarked, try Szymborska. But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in\u003ci\u003eMap\u003c\/i\u003etrace Szymborska s work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirety of the poet s last Polish collection, \u003ci\u003eEnough, \u003c\/i\u003e never before published in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Map\u003c\/i\u003eis the first English publication of Szymborska s work since the acclaimed\u003ci\u003eHere, \u003c\/i\u003e and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her ironic elegance (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Wislawa Szymborksa: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Extremely smart, witty, and level-headed, [Szymborska] seduces us with her wide range of interests, her atypical lack of narcissism for a poet, and her cheerful pessimism. \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Her poems offer a restorative wit as playful as it is steely and as humble as it is wise. Most poets jostle for center stage, but Szymborska looks on from afar, her wry acceptance of life s folly remaining her strongest weapon against tyranny and bad taste. \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Refreshingly direct but always surprising, her poems keep taking us to further, unexpected perspectives. \u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dark, complex, and profoundly intelligent. \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [She] captures the nightmarish contingency of human survival, and the human callousness toward nature, with an ironic elegance miraculously free of bitterness. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (1923-2012) was born in Poland and worked as a poetry editor, translator, and columnist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. \u003cbr\u003e CLARE CAVANAGH received an NBCC award for criticism and a PEN Translation Award for her work, with STANISLAW BARANCZAK, on Szymborska's poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761833115936,"sku":"9780544705159","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/88632641fdde37b765753019bfcc5692.webp?v=1780213929","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/map-collected-and-last-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}