View with a grain of sand Selected poems
Book - 1995
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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- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
Translations - Published
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New York :
Harcourt Brace and Co
[1995]
- Language
- English
Polish - Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- Publisher's statement precedes place of publication on imprint.
Copyright statement dated on title page verso.
Edition statement from title page verso. - Physical Description
- ix, 214 pages ; 22 cm
- Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature, 1996.
- ISBN
- 9780151001538
9780156002165
9780156002172 - Place of Publication
- United States -- New York (State) -- New York
- From Calling out to Yeti 1957. Brueghel's two monkeys ; Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan expedition ; Nothing twice.
- From Salt 1962. Museum ; A moment in Troy ; Clochard ; Vocabulary ; Travel elegy ; An unexpected meeting ; Rubens' women ; Coloratura ; Bodybuilders' contest ; Poetry reading ; The tower of Babel ; Water ; Conversation with a stone.
- From No end of fun 1967. The joy of writing ; Landscape ; Family album ; The railroad station ; Born ; Soliloquy for Cassandra ; A Byzantine mosaic ; Beheading ; Pieta ; Returning birds ; Thomas Mann ; Tarsier ; The acrobat ; A Palaeolithic fertility fetish ; No end of fun.
- From Could have 1972. Could have ; Theatre impressions ; Voices ; The letters of the dead ; Advertisement ; Going home ; Discovery ; Dinosaur skeleton ; Birthday ; Allegro ma non troppo ; Autotomy ; Frozen motion ; The classic ; In praise of dreams ; True love ; Under one small star.
- From A large number 1976. A large number ; Thank-you note ; Psalm ; Lot's wife ; Seen from above ; Experiment ; Smiles ; The terrorist, he's watching ; A medieval miniature ; In praise of my sister ; Hermitage ; Evaluation of an unwritten poem ; Warning ; The onion ; The suicide's room ; In praise of feeling bad about yourself ; On the banks of the Styx ; Utopia ; Pi.
- From The people on the bridge 1986. Archeology ; View with a grain of sand ; Clothes ; On death, without exaggeration ; In broad daylight ; Our ancestors' short lives ; Hitler's first photograph ; The century's decline ; Children of our age ; Tortures ; Plotting with the dead ; Writing a resume ; Funeral ; An opinion on the question of pornography ; A tale begun ; Into the ark ; Miracle fair ; The people on the bridge.
- From The end and the beginning 1993. Sky ; No title required ; The end and the beginning ; Hatred ; Reality demands ; Elegiac calculation ; Cat in an empty apartment ; Parting with a view ; Seance ; Love at first sight ; May 16, 1973 ; Maybe all this ; Slapstick ; Nothing's a gift ; One version of events ; We're extremely fortunate.