Volume 29, Number 16 · October 21, 1982
The Revenge of the Mortal Hand
By Jaroslaw Anders
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Magnus J. Krynski, by Robert A. Maguire
Princeton University Press, 215 pp., $17.50; $7.95 (paper)
Of the poetic voices to come out of Poland after 1945 Wislawa Szymborska's is probably the most elusive as well as the most distinctive. She defies the usual categories ('classicist,' 'political') used to describe writers on the Polish postwar literary scene. Moreover, she is isolated both in her writing and in her life, avoiding autobiography and remaining intensely private.
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