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  <title><![CDATA[Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska]]></title>
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  <default_description>Winner 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.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wisława Szymborska]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[She's a great poet. I realize this is a translation, but her lines are so uncluttered, so profound. This from the poem, Torture: <br/><br/>Nothing has changed. Maybe just the manners, ceremonies, dances.<br/>Yet the movement of the hands in protecting the head is the same.<br/>The body writhes, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44311392">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was truly disappointed by this particular Szymborska collection of selected poems.  The poems are poorly chosen, and are not representative of her best work.  The translation appears to be mediocre, and poems that soar in the far superior collection, View With A Grain Of Sand, fall flat in Miracle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30738200">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the work of a firecely intellectual, calm and attentive mind. Szymborska once said that poetry involved sitting in a quiet room, pen in hand, and staring at a wall for hours. Hard to believe that that was where these beautiful and affirming poems were borne. While not as comprehensive as her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45394215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The ordinary may be extraordinarily expressed. I read from this book <br/>on a daily basis.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The poems are beautiful, but the translation occasionally yanked me out of the poem. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska by Wislawa Szymborska (2001)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, I didn't make it to the end.  Nothing really compelled me to finish it.  Perhaps it was the translation, or perhaps I'll come back in a few years and enjoy it more.  It seemed rather flat to me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strength in vulnerability. Walking around with your eyes open, unafraid to peer into dark corners. Narrative in place of sharp edged opinion takes the form of Woman, or has been Woman all along. I love her. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful poems by the Nobel Prize Polish poet Szymborska. One of my absolute poems of all times is &quot;Love at First Sight&quot;. Highly recommend!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;i believe in commonplace miracle&quot;<br/><br/>...i truly believe so.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[by best translator from Polish to English: J. Trzeciak]]></body>
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