![]() ![]() While the Polish history from World War II through Stalinism clearly informs her poetry, Szymborska was also a deeply personal poet who explored the large truths that exist in ordinary, everyday things. She is also the author of Nonrequired Reading (Harcourt, 2002), a collection of prose pieces. ![]() Her collections available in English include Monologue of a Dog (Harcourt, 2005) Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska (Norton, 2001) Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997 (Harcourt, 1998) View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems(Harcourt, 1995) People on a Bridge (Forest, 1990) and Sounds, Feelings Thoughts: Seventy Poems (Princeton UP, 1981). During her lifetime, Szymborska authored more than fifteen books of poetry. ![]() She began work at the literary review magazine Życie Literackie (Literary Life) in 1953, a job she held for nearly thirty years. While attending the university, she became involved in Krakow’s literary scene and first met and was influenced by Czeslaw Milosz. Szymborska studied Polish literature and sociology at Jagellonian University from 1945 until 1948. Her family moved to Krakow in 1931 where she lived most of her life. ![]() Wislawa Szymborska was born on July 2, 1923, in Bnin, a small town in Western Poland. ![]()
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