{"product_id":"here-poems-isbn-9780547592091","title":"Here: Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA \"delectable and profound\" collection of poems from Nobel Prize–winner Szymborska (\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eHere\u003c\/em\u003e was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the title poem:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI can’t speak for elsewhere, \u003cbr\u003ebut here on Earth we’ve got a fair supply of everything. \u003cbr\u003eHere we manufacture chairs and sorrows, \u003cbr\u003escissors, tenderness, transistors, violins, teacups, dams, and quips. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike nowhere else, or almost nowhere, \u003cbr\u003eyou’re given your own torso here,\u003cbr\u003eequipped with the accessories required\u003cbr\u003efor adding your own children to the rest.\u003cbr\u003eNot to mention arms, legs, and astonished head. | \u003cp\u003e\"No reader, not even poetry-phobes, should miss the bright revelations of Nobel laureate Szymborska. [...] Syzmborska is sharply ironic and lithely philosophical, pondering the phenomenal precision of dreams and the elusiveness of meaning. The neat, prancing lyrics collected in this slender, piercing book are delectable and profound.\" --Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890152992997,"sku":"NP9780547592091","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780547592091.jpg?v=1730232644","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/here-poems-isbn-9780547592091","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}