View With a Grain of Sand Selected Poems

"No lyric writer has ever been more confident of the universality of human response. Szymborska writes not for Poles alone, nor for women alone, nor for the 20th century alone: she believes fiercely in a common epistemology and a common ethic, at least within the Western culture she writes from and to...The universality of suffering is Szymborska's chief life-theme, and reiterative narration (interspersed with epigram) is her usual rhetorical mode...In a time when it is being metaphysically denied that any human universals exist, it is salutary to read Szymborska on the ancientness of human evil. Mercifully, Szymborska also notes the perpetual resurgence of hope and the deep rewards of human attachment."Szymborska, Wislawa is the author of 'View With a Grain of Sand Selected Poems', published 1995 under ISBN 9780156002165 and ISBN 0156002167.