**"Both plain-spoken and luminous . . . [Szymborska's] is the best of
the Western mind--free, restless, questioning." -- New York Times Book
Review
A New York Times Editors' Choice**
"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."
-- Vogue
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.
Edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, Map
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, Enough, never before published in English. Map offers
Szymborska's devoted readers a welcome return to her "ironic elegance"
(TheNew Yorker).
"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."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
