Name: How to Start Writing and When to Stop: Advice for Writers (in English)
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Author: Wislawa Szymborska
ISBN: 9780811229715

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Wislawa Szymborska

Translated by

Clare Cavanagh

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.2 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9780811229715

Synopsis "How to Start Writing and When to Stop: Advice for Writers (in English)"

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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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(1923-2012). Wislawa empezó su carrera dentro del régimen socialista polaco y después se convirtió en su opositora, saltó a la fama mundial en la década de 1990. A pesar de la breve extensión de su obra, ha sido reconocida como una de las voces más intensas y claras de la literatura universal y contemporánea, y se ha hecho acreedora de los premios Goethe (1991), Herder (1995) y Nobel de literatura (1996).

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