View With A Grain of Sand: Selected Poems.

SZYMBORSKA, Wislawa.

Item Number: 2618

New York: Harcourt Brace , 1995.

First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Wislawa Szymborska on the title page. Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steven Cooley.

View with a Grain of Sand is by far the best introduction to the Polish writer, conveying not only the fantastic lightness of her touch but the entire worlds she manages to pack into, as it were, a grain of sand.