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How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers
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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 gave--anonymously--for 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.
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780811229715
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/30/2021
About the Author
Szymborska, Wislawa: - 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 joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. She is a poet to live with (Robert Hass).Cavanagh, Clare: - Winner of the NBCC in criticism, Clare Cavanagh is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. Her translations include Wislawa Szymborska's Map: Collected and Last Poems, with Stanislaw Baranczak, and Adam Zagajewski's Slight Exaggeration.
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.
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780811229715
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/30/2021
About the Author
Szymborska, Wislawa: - 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 joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. She is a poet to live with (Robert Hass).Cavanagh, Clare: - Winner of the NBCC in criticism, Clare Cavanagh is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. Her translations include Wislawa Szymborska's Map: Collected and Last Poems, with Stanislaw Baranczak, and Adam Zagajewski's Slight Exaggeration.
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