Wislawa Szymborska’s “Starvation Camp Near Jaslo”
by Stephan Haggard | December 17th, 2011 | 07:00 amThe December 22 issue of The New York Review of Books has a review by Charles Simic of post-war Polish poets. A passage from Wislawa Szymborska’s “Starvation Camp Near Jaslo” caught our attention and we tracked down the whole poem. (Szymborska was awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1996). The translation is by Stanislaw [...]