Here

A delectable and profound collection of poems from Nobel Prize–winner Szymborska (Booklist).When Here was published in Poland reviewers marveled “How is it that she keeps getting better?” These twenty-seven poems as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenage self microscopic creatures or the upsides to living on Earth she remains a virtuoso of form line and thought.From the title poem:I can’t speak for elsewhere but here on Earth we’ve got a fair supply of everything. Here we manufacture chairs and sorrows scissors tenderness transistors violins teacups dams and quips. . .Like nowhere else or almost nowhere you’re given your own torso hereequipped with the accessories requiredfor adding your own children to the rest.Not to mention arms legs and astonished head.