When Wislawa Szymborksa's View with a Grain of Sand, also
translated by Stanislaw Baraczak and Clare Cavanagh, was published
shortly after its author's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1996, the Polish poet, hitherto all but unknown outside her own
country, became an international name. More than 10,000 copies of
the book have been sold in Britain alone. Yet it was not so much
the fame of the prize, as the directness, vigour, wit and honesty
with which Szymborska herself writes - qualities deftly captured by
her translators - that brought this about. Transcending national
and generational boundaries with her rare combination of moral
wisdom and down-to-earth manner of speaking to us, she is
unquestionably one of the great poetic spirits of the age. Poems
New and Collected adds sixty-four new translations to the text of
View with a Grain of Sand and includes, as preface, its author's
Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
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