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. 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. Wisława Szymborska ; Translated From The Polish By Stanisław Barańczak And Clare Cavanagh.

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