Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska

"Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best."—Harvard Book ReviewWinner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska"s major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature"s beauty, and the illusory character of art. 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.