[Michael F]

Wislawa Szymborska has died at 88.

I love her poetry, and I loved (what I knew of) her puckish personality.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/polands-199...204551629.html

[Quincy Lehr]

That is a real loss. I go back to her Collected quite regularly.

[Chris O'Carroll]

May she rest in peace. And may all of us (whether or not we win the Nobel) write a few poems as good as her best.

[Janice D. Soderling]

I don't know how I missed this news, but I haven't been listening to the radio for a while.

She was one of my favorite poets long before she won the Nobel. The day it was announced, I was waking up in a hospital ward after an operation and the first thing I asked (I kid you not) was who had won the prize in literature.

The others in the ward probably thought I had mental as well as bodily problems, of course, when I learned it was "some Polish woman, a poet" and I let out a big yippee and went back to sleep.

No one else there knew who she was, though she had even then an excellent Swedish translator.

Thank you for posting this.

[Terese Coe]

Splendid poet! I have taught her poems to my classes for years.

[Orwn Acra]

That Wislawa! Smart career move.