Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997

Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm. Beautifully translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN Translation Prize for their work, this volume is a must-have for all readers of poetry.

The Poet and the World

xi

Nobel Lecture

Translators' Note

xvii

from CALLING OUT TO YETI 1957

I'm Working on the World

3

(2)

Classifieds

5

(2)

Greeting the Supersonics

7

(1)

An Effort

8

(1)

Four A.M.

9

(1)

Still Life with a Balloon

10

(2)

To My Friends

12

(1)

Funeral (I)

13

(2)

Brueghel's Two Monkeys

15

(1)

Still

16

(1)

Atlantis

17

(1)

Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition

18

(2)

Nothing Twice

20

(1)

Buffo

21

(2)

Commemoration

23

(4)

from SALT 1962

The Monkey

27

(2)

Lesson

29

(1)

Museum

30

(1)

A Moment in Troy

31

(2)

Shadow

33

(1)

The Rest

34

(1)

Clochard

35

(1)

Vocabulary

36

(1)

Travel Elegy

37

(2)

Without a Title

39

(1)

An Unexpected Meeting

40

(1)

Golden Anniversary

41

(1)

Starvation Camp Near Jaslo

42

(1)

Parable

43

(1)

Ballad

44

(2)

Over Wine

46

(1)

Rubens' Women

47

(1)

Coloratura

48

(2)

Bodybuilders' Contest

50

(1)

Poetry Reading

51

(1)

Epitaph

52

(1)

Prologue to a Comedy

53

(1)

Likeness

54

(1)

I am too close...

55

(2)

The Tower of Babel

57

(1)

Water

58

(2)

Synopsis

60

(1)

In Heraclitus's River

61

(1)

Conversation with a Stone

62

(5)

NO END OF FUN 1967

The Joy of Writing

67

(2)

Memory Finally

69

(1)

Landscape

70

(2)

Family Album

72

(1)

Laughter

73

(2)

The Railroad Station

75

(2)

Alive

77

(2)

Born

79

(2)

Census

81

(2)

Soliloquy for Cassandra

83

(2)

A Byzantine Mosaic

85

(2)

Beheading

87

(1)

Pieta

88

(1)

Innocence

89

(1)

Vietnam

90

(1)

Written in a Hotel

91

(3)

A Film from the Sixties

94

(1)

Report from the Hospital

95

(1)

Returning Birds

96

(1)

Thomas Mann

97

(1)

Tarsier

98

(2)

To My Heart, On Sunday

100

(1)

The Acrobat

101

(1)

A Palaeolithic Fertility Fetish

102

(1)

Cave

103

(2)

Motion

105

(1)

No End of Fun

106

(5)

from COULD HAVE 1972

Could Have

111

(1)

Falling from the Sky

112

(1)

Wrong Number

113

(1)

Theatre Impressions

114

(2)

Voices

116

(2)

The Letters of the Dead

118

(1)

Old Folks' Home

119

(1)

120

(1)

Lazarus Takes a Walk

121

(1)

Snapshot of a Crowd

122

(1)

Going Home

123

(1)

Discovery

124

(1)

Dinosaur Skeleton

125

(2)

A Speech at the Lost-and-Found

127

(1)

Astonishment

128

(1)

Birthday

129

(1)

Interview with a Child

130

(2)

Allegro ma Non Troppo

132

(2)

Autotomy

134

(1)

Frozen Motion

135

(1)

Certainty

136

(1)

The Classic

137

(1)

In Praise of Dreams

138

(2)

True Love

140

(2)

Under One Small Star

142

(3)

from A LARGE NUMBER 1976

A Large Number

145

(1)

Thank-You Note

146

(2)

Psalm

148

(1)

Lot's Wife

149

(2)

Seen from Above

151

(1)

Experiment

152

(1)

Smiles

153

(1)

The Terrorist, He's Watching

154

(2)

A Medieval Miniature

156

(2)

Aging Opera Singer

158

(1)

In Praise of My Sister

159

(1)

Hermitage

160

(1)

Portrait of Woman

161

(1)

Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem

162

(2)

Warning

164

(2)

The Onion

166

(1)

The Suicide's Room

167

(1)

In Praise of Feeling Bad about Yourself

168

(1)

Life While-You-Wait

169

(2)

On the Banks of the Styx

171

(2)

Utopia

173

(1)

Pi

174

(5)

THE PEOPLE ON THE BRIDGE 1986

Stage Fright

179

(2)

Surplus

181

(2)

Archeology

183

(2)

View with a Grain of Sand

185

(2)

Clothes

187

(1)

On Death, without Exaggeration

188

(2)

The Great Man's House

190

(2)

In Broad Daylight

192

(2)

Our Ancestors' Short Lives

194

(2)

Hitler's First Photograph

196

(2)

The Century's Decline

198

(2)

Children of Our Age

200

(2)

Tortures

202

(2)

Plotting with the Dead

204

(1)

Writing a Resume

205

(1)

Funeral (II)

206

(2)

An Opinion on the Question of Pornography

208

(2)

A Tale Begun

210

(2)

Into the Ark

212

(2)

Possibilities

214

(2)

Miracle Fair

216

(2)

The People on the Bridge

218

(5)

THE END AND THE BEGINNING 1993

Sky

223

(2)

No Title Required

225

(2)

Some People Like Poetry

227

(1)

The End and the Beginning

228

(2)

Hatred

230

(2)

Reality Demands

232

(2)

The Real World

234

(2)

Elegiac Calculation

236

(2)

Cat in an Empty Apartment

238

(2)

Parting with a View

240

(2)

Seance

242

(2)

Love at First Sight

244

(2)

May 16, 1973

246

(2)

Maybe All This

248

(2)

Slapstick

250

(2)

Nothings' a Gift

252

(2)

One Version of Events

254

(4)

We're Extremely Fortunate

258

(3)

NEW POEMS 1993-97

The Three Oddest Words

261

(1)

Some People

262

(1)

A Contribution to Statistics

263

(2)

Negative

265

(1)

Clouds

266

(1)

Among the Multitudes

267

(2)

The Silence of Plants

269

(2)

Index of First Lines

271

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