A student of mine gave me Symborska's Poems. I don't really know why he did, but the choice was inspired. A problem, of course, that I don't have the language. nevertheless, I can see she is a poet of genius. I used two of the poems for lessons in writing poetry, in the days when I did such things. I argued it was possible to see how the poems worked without knowing Polish, without even having access to the translation on the facing page. And it is! Though I say it myself, these were very good lessons.
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