How to Start Writing
Wisława Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh · 2021
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"In this witty "how-to" guide, Wis¿awa 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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN
- 9780811229715
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