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Wisława Szymborska’s poems are themselves a kind of miracle fair – the festival of a ruthlessly skeptical intelligence called back in wonderment to the world - and Joanna Trzeciak brings to them a fresh vocabulary of understanding, a quick linguistic agility, and a keen poetic intelligence. What Szymborska calls ‘ the joy of writing’ also becomes, in the book, the joy of reading.”Edward Hirsch“Szymborska brings joy because she is so sharp, because she derives pleasure out of juggling the props of our common heritage , and because she has such a good sense of the comic. And she takes a conscious risk, performing her magical tricks along the fine line dividing poems and essay.”From the foreword by Czeslaw Milosz