Map: Collected and Last Poems

Ecco, 2016. Reprint. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (5.31 x 1.19 x 8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Translated from Polish. Includes translation credits and an index of titles and first lines. A beautiful collection of the author's poetry. 464 pp.


Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize-winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection.

One of Europe's greatest poets, Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska was also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. With unexpected humor, her elegant, precise, poems pose questions we never thought to ask. "If you want the world in a nutshell," a Polish critic has remarked, "try Szymborska." but the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.

Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska's work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirely of the poet's last Polish collection, "Enough", never before published in English.

Map is the first English publication of Szymborska's work since the acclaimed Here, and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her "ironic elegance" (The New Yorker).