The Acrobat: Essential Poems

A paperback original

A vibrant collection of the lasting, essential work of the Nobel Prize–winning poet Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska’s work is known for its precision, cleverness, deceptive simplicity, and the way the poet plays out domestic and human concerns against the tapestry of history. With a probing, skeptical, and witty eye, Szymborska presents readers with intellectual challenges and philosophical quandaries while remaining accessible and, sometimes, deceptively simple.

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