Szymborska, Wisława.
Summary: A selection of short prose pieces by the Polish poet incorporates the author's reflections on an eclectic array of books, ranging from titles on cooking, yoga, gardening, and home repair to volumes on opera and world literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.1 SZYSzymborska, Wisława.
Summary: "In this collection of contemplative, witty, and always surprising poems, Wislawa Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass, from small-scale naughtiness to the happiness of skating on thin ice, from the district firemen's ball to the cosmos."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.85 SZYSzymborska, Wisława.
Summary: An anthology by a Polish writer. In Bodybuilders' Contest, she writes: "He grunts while showing his poses and paces. / His back alone has twenty different faces. / The mammoth fist he raises as he wins / is tribute to the force of vitamins." By the author of Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1995