Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska
The New Yorker: Poetry
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Bislawa Simborska's Vision at the End
Poem by Bislawa Simborska, translated by Claire Kavanagh and Stanislaw Boranzak. "A little girl is sewing a button on her sleeve," says the poet. The poem shifts from larger political collective questions to the very particular individual moment. 'The attention to the particular in the face of these huge problems of war or our tininess,' she writes.
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