Miracle Fair

Wislawa Szymborska is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and her translator, Joanna Trzeciak is the winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation in Slavic Studies.

"Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best."—Harvard Book ReviewWinner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a gentle subversive, self-deprecating in its wit, yet graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary.