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Wisława Szymborska · 2005 CE · Poem · Polish · Contemporary

Seventeen short poems turn Szymborska's dry, questioning attention on time, mortality, accident and the ordinary objects of a life. Each poem poses its question and withholds the answer that would close it. The slim collection was named readers' book of the year by Gazeta Wyborcza.

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