Map

By Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh (translator), Stanislaw Baranczak (translator)

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1 author picked Map as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I take book-breaks. Moments apart from deluging news and dataism. Pause; slip away. The moments become a matter of life and breath. What’re you doing now? people sometimes ask. Heeding a call in a writer.

 Map is a book that asks for this kind of heeding. It collects Szymborska’s patient, wise poems. Restorative in their incisive elegance and wit, her poetry reminds you of the almost lost art of wit—which asks you to recognize foibles, treasure perceptions of the transitory.

These poems offer rare episodes when amused awareness and passing incidents turn luminous; and where nothing is (paradoxically) transcended or…

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