Wislawa Szymborska

How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Cavanagh, Clare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At once kind and hilarious, this compilation of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's advice to writers is illustrated with her own marvelous collages

In this witty how-to guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories, she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gaveanonymouslyfor many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life.
She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly. I sigh to be a poet, Miss A. P. from Bialogard exclaims. I groan to be an editor, Szymborska responds.
Szymborska stubbornly insists on poetry's prosaic side: Let's take the wings off and try writing on foot, shall we? This delightful compilation, translated by the peerless Clare Cavanagh, will delight readers and writers alike.
Perhaps you could learn to love in prose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811229722
• Artikelnr.: 62604011

Autorenporträt

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wislawa Szymborska, is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joythough it is a dark kind of joyto read. She is a poet to live with" (Robert Hass).