Astonishment (Sources)

Sources

Aaron, Jonathan, “‘In the Absence of Witnesses’: The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska,” in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Fall/Winter 1983 and Spring/Summer 1984, pp. 254 – 64.

Bojanowska, Edyta M., “Wislawa Szymborska: Naturalist and Humanist,” in Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1997, pp. 199 – 223.

Carpenter, Bogdana, “Wislawa Szymborska and the Importance of the Unimportant,” in World Literature Today, Vol. 71, No. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 8 – 12.

Cavanagh, Clare, “Poetry and Ideology: The Example of Wislawa Szymborska,” in Literary Imagination, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1999, pp. 174 – 90.

Franklin, Ruth, Review, in New Republic, Vol. 224, No. 4507, June 4, 2001, p. 58.

Milosz, Czeslaw, The Captive Mind, quoted in Clare Cavanagh, “Poetry and Ideology: The Example of Wislawa Szymborska,” in Literary Imagination, Vol.17, No. 2, 1999, pp. 174 – 90.

Murphy, Dean E., “Creating a Universal Poetry amid Political Chaos: An Interview with Wislawa Szymborska,” in Los Angeles Times, Sunday, October 13, 1996.

Rosslyn, Felicity, “Miraculously Normal: Wislawa Szymborska,” in PN Review, May/June 1994, pp. 14 – 18.

Szymborska, Wislawa, “The Poet and the World: Nobel Lecture 1996,” reprinted in Poems New and Collected, by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baraéczak and Clare Cavanagh, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1998, pp. xi – xvi.