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	Polish culture: WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
		Szymborska represents a puzzling phenomenon: she electrifies her readers despite being modest, introverted, discreet and hushed.
		Szymborska reaches out to her readers over the heads of critics and without the help of the mass media.
		Szymborska writes sparingly; she is reckoned to have written no more than 250 poems.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/os_szymborska_wislawa (457 words)

	Wislawa Szymborska (1996) — Poet Seers
		Wislawa Szymborska was born in Kornik in Western Poland on 2 July 1923.
		Szymborska made her début in March 1945 with a poem "Szukam slowa" (I am Looking for a Word) in the daily "Dziennik Polski".
		Wislawa Szymborska is the Goethe Prize winner (1991) and Herder Prize winner (1995).
	www.poetseers.org /nobel_prize_for_literature/wislawa_szymborska (273 words)

	Wislawa Szymborska Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
		Wislawa Szymborska Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
		Szymborska and her literature (submitted by Jacek Dawda)
		Poems and Biography of Wislawa Szymborska (submitted by Maria)
	www.nobelprizes.com /nobel/literature/1996a.html (105 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Wislawa Szymborska (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wislawa Szymborska (in Polish Wisława Szymborska) (1923 -) is a Polish poet, essayist and translator of French literature.
		The poetic style of Szymborska is clear, well thought-out and precise, some may say it is classical.
		As a person she is a quiet but witty woman, fragile but with a strong personality, who dislikes being in the limelight but is a charming speaker.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/wi/Wislawa_Szymborska (340 words)

	Wisława Szymborska
		Szymborska is an inspired ironist of the first order, a warm and wily creature of reason who cherishes the life of the mind much too ardently to let any excursion into ideas turn into a forced march.
		Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska's forte is in the way she looks upon the world we live in (and which she has been living in for quite some time, being in her eighties), and her ability to see it through a drop of water and to reflect it in all its simple complexity.
		Szymborska herself wrote in one of her poems that the muse is stingy with public applause as far as poetry is concerned.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /wisl_szymborska.html (8637 words)

	Szymborska, Wislawa Criticism and Essays
		Szymborska is considered one of the most accomplished European poets of the second half of the twentieth century.
		Szymborska was forced to assume the pseudonym “Stanczykowna” and print her poetry in such dissident and exile publications as the Polish magazine Arka and the Parisian journal Kultura Paryska.
		Acknowledging that Szymborska's poetry is extremely focused on the everyday and the manifestly realistic, reviewers have maintained that her works embody a universal appeal that demonstrates her poetic joy in life's miraculous potential, tempered by her strong skepticism of easy solutions and her acute awareness of suffering.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/szymborska-wislawa (1069 words)

	Miracle Fair by Wislawa Szymborska
		Szymborska's poetry is a delight to read; although her diction is mostly chosen from the simple, vernacular, even colloquial, what she does with those words is create a playful, complex landscape full of unexpected twists and turns.
		Her experiences living in Poland for most of the twentieth century inform her writing profoundly; she is unwilling to shy away from the horrors and evils that are part of our human inheritance, but she is equally compelled by the joys.
		Szymborska maintains this fine balance with the athletic grace of a tightrope walker: where most of us edge ourselves over the abyss inch by inch, she is dancing.
	people.ku.edu /~kanning/reading/szymborska.html (446 words)

	Astonishment Summary & Essays - Wislawa Szymborska
		Wislawa Szymborska’s “Astonishment,” also translated as “Wonderment,” is a simple, sixteenline poem in which the poet asks a series of questions about why she exists in this world in the form that she does.
		Szymborska published the poem in 1972 in Wszelki wypadek (Could Have), a collection in which the poet tackles philosophical issues as they relate to everyday life.
		As with most of Szymborska’s poetry, little has been written about “Astonishment,” but the work is of particular interest because it echoes many of the remarks made by the poet in her 1996 Nobel lecture.
	www.enotes.com /astonishment (320 words)

	Afterthoughts on Wislawa Szymborska: SR, September 1999
		Herbert was, and is, inspiring; Szymborska is not.
		Szymborska's poetry of that period was mendacious, but it was also powerful.
		The sycophancy accompanying Szymborska's newly acquired fame during and after the reception of the Nobel was predictable.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/999/boss.html (541 words)

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		Wislawa Szymborska was born in Bnin (now part of Kornik), Poland on July 23, 1923.
		As a poet Szymborska made her debut with the poem “Szukam slowa" (I am Looking for a Word) which was published in the newspaper Dziennik Polski in 1945.
		Szymborska is one of the few woman poets who have received the prize.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/wislawa_szymborska.html (681 words)

	A deft observer of ironies and oddities - The Boston Globe
		Szymborska's poem ''Photograph From September 11" has nothing to say of terrorism or world affairs, focusing rather on the still image of bodies falling from the burning twin towers, seeming to be suspended in air.
		Several Szymborska collections are in print, including ''Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska," ''View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems," and ''Poems New and Collected 1957-1997." The last has the unusually intense ''Starvation Camp Near Jaslo" (''History rounds off skeletons to zero.
		Szymborska's collection of short prose pieces, ''Nonrequired Reading," includes this remark, suggestive of her own outlook, about the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen: ''Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/02/05/a_deft_observer_of_ironies_and_oddities (694 words)

	Polish Culture Website - Why Wislawa Szymborska?
		Szymborska frequently employs literary devices, such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate underlying philosophical themes and obsessions.
		Although most of Szymborska's poems are barely a page in length, they often touch on issues of ethical import, reflecting on the condition of Man both as individual and member of human society.
		Szymborska's style is marked by intellectual introspection, wit, and a succinct and stylish choice of words.
	www.polishculture.co.uk /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=35 (444 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wislawa Szymborska (Miscellaneous European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Although highly acclaimed in her homeland, Szymborska was largely unknown in the West until she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
		Szymborska turned to philosophical observation in Wolanie do Yeti [calling to the yeti] (1957), and in that work and SOl [salt] (1962) and Sto pociech [a barrel of laughs] (1967) she explored human isolation and celebrated poetic creation.
		Szymborska is also an accomplished translator, literary critic, and essayist.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SzymborskaW.html (293 words)

	Wislawa Szymborska - poetka pytan i watpliwosci. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dostrzega ona we wspólczesnym swiecie dehumanizacje zycia, zbyt pospieszny Wislawa Szymborska - poetka pytan i watpliwosci.
		Kolejne wersy to wyliczanie tego co mialo sie zdarzyc, a nie zdarzylo Wislawa Szymborska - poetka pytan i watpliwosci.
		Szymborska liczy na umiejetnosc Wislawa Szymborska - poetka pytan i watpliwosci.
	www.ebuda.pl /wislawa-szymborska (965 words)

	Article-Monologue of a Dog
		Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass.
		All poets, according to Wislawa Szymborska, are in a perpetual dialogue with the phrase I don't know.
		Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_monologue_of_a_dog-0151012202.htm (706 words)

	Wislawa Szymborska (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wislawa Szymborska (in Polish Wisława Szymborska) (born July 2 1923) is a Polish poet, essayist and translator of French literature.
		In 1931 her family moved to Cracow where from 1945 to 1948 she studied Polish language and sociology at the Jagiellonian University.
		From that time Szymborska loved Cracow and is inseparably connected with this historic city.
	www.usapedia.com /w/wislawa-szymborska.html (337 words)

	Wisława Szymborska
		Szymborska's volume avoids the staleness of most book-review collections, precisely because she's not much interested in explaining or evaluating the work under review.
		Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, has lived in Kraków since 1931.
		Szymborska writes a weekly column for Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest daily newspaper, in which she "reviews" books that are too offbeat for full-length treatment.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /060603.html (2787 words)

	Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska by Wislawa Szymborska : Book
		Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary.
		This won't be the case for all of her poems, as a few are abstract for the pleasure of abstract thinkers.
		Szymborska knows that there are not only unimaginable horrors in the world, but also "miracles," small truths that are awesome and often wonderful - not because of any religious or magical event, but because they remind us, once again, of our humanity and of what good things might be possible.
	www.crimsonbird.com /4/0393323854.html (1495 words)

	Rambles: Wislawa Szymborska, Monologue of a Dog (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wislawa Szymborska is a Polish poet who, until 1996 -- although highly regarded in Europe -- had never really been thrust into the world's attention.
		Szymborska's poetry joins the transcendant with the mundane in a way that no other poet quite seems to manage, although Billy Collins, who wrote a foreword to this collection, comes close.
		Szymborska creates clear-eyed juxtapositions that subvert our sense of our own importance while at the same time reaffirming our worth in a universe that is wondrous because it is so improbable -- existence and identity are as much a matter of chance as anything else, as in "Among the Multitudes."
	www.rambles.net /szymborska_dog06.html (292 words)

	From Krakow to Buffalo
		The exhibition presentedthe body of Szymborska's literary work as well as a study of her creative process, and was scheduled to run through January 31, but due to public demand, was extended through February 14, 1997.
		Wislawa Szymborska is the sixth Polish Nobel Prize winner in the history of the Nobel awards.
		Szymborska made her debut on March 14, 1945 with her poem "I seek the Word" which was published in the newspaper "Dziennik Polski", and its literary insert "Walka" ("Straggle").
	www.uj.edu.pl /IRO/NEWSLET/IRC3/irc3brom.html (1184 words)

	Brent Reviews Szymborska's Poetry
		Szymborska's word-play involves willful resistance that proves the substantial weight of the human voice-say the word silence and you break it-versus the fragility of the mind's abstractions.
		Several different translators have tried their hand at Szymborska's work and the results, much like the restorations of any kind of lost art, throw different aspects of the original into relief while inadvertently reflecting the values and interests of the translators themselves.
		In Szymborska's work there is hesitancy and modesty-perhaps a matter of personality-an emphasis on the difficulty of telling the truth, to get it right, to thread one's way through a maze of official half-truths.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR23.3/brent.html (1446 words)

	Wislawa Szymborska
		Wislawa Szymborska was born on the 2nd July in Bnin (near Poznan).
		Szymborska works for a railroad company as an official (to avoid transportation to a labour camp in Germany).
		Szymborska thinks, that it is not necessary to know the writer's biography to understand a poem.
	library.thinkquest.org /11959/szymbor/01biogr.htm (511 words)

	Monologue of a Dog, written by: Wislawa Szymborska, Reviewed by Lys Anzia - December 2006 - March 2007
		The sardonic yet soft words of poet Wislawa Szymborska in her new book of poems called Monologue of a Dog, out this year by Harcourt Books, is a toss-up between wisdom and charity, pain and laughter, acceptance and refute.
		After receiving a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, at the age of seventy-three, Wislawa began the process of taking what was once a very shy and private life into the limelight of public shows and world celebrity.
		As though nothing else matters, Szymborska gives her words apt time to fall from the sky, as harsh and silent as the dead of 9/11.
	www.moondance.org /2006/winter2006/reviews/monologue.html (1103 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Szymborska,
		Wislawa Szymborska and the importance of the unimportant.
		Poet does it all 'wrong,' but she's so right: Nobel winner Wislawa Szymborska triumphs over contemporary standards, which are simply silly.
		Averse To Fame; Reclusive Poet Wislawa Szymborska Has A Nobel Prize and Popularity to Match.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Szymborska, (467 words)

	Wislawa Szymborska
		Wislawa Szymborska was born in Bnin (now part of Kornick) in western Poland.
		As a poet Szymborska made her debut with the poem Szukam slowa which was published in the newspaper Dziennik Polski in 1945.
		Szymborska's two poems published in the magazine Orda (1/2000) expressed her feelings of aging and strangeness - she sees that we are only visitors in a cosmic party.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /szymbor.htm (867 words)

	Representing the Other: A Conversation among Mikhail Bakhtin, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wislawa Szymborska Comparative ...
		She refers to her poetry as the poetry of motion, and her figure for the act of perception is the "Sandpiper," who is obsessed with noticing every grain of sand between his toes.
		Szymborska's objects, on the other hand, retain a thingliness that is set over against culture.
		However, her poems put into question the objects' separation from the cultural sphere, so that their independent life is sometimes the product of the speaker's fantasy (as in "Interview with a Child"), and sometimes a claim made for or by objects themselves but simultaneously undermined in the poem.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_200501/ai_n13635299 (846 words)

	Wislawa Szymborska - Biography
		Wislawa Szymborska was born in Kórnik* in Western Poland on 2 July 1923.
		Szymborska made her début in March 1945 with a poem "Szukam slowa" (I am Looking for a Word) in the daily "Dziennik Polski".
		Wislawa Szymborska is the Goethe Prize winner (1991) and Herder Prize winner (1995).
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/szymborska-bio.html (383 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Wislawa Szymborska
		Wislawa Szymborska was born in Bnin (now a part of Kórnik) in Western Poland in 1923.
		Among her many honors and awards are a Goethe Prize, a Herder Prize, and a Polish PEN Club prize.
		Wislawa Szymborska won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/340 (132 words)

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