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Sky
We
should have started from this: the sky.
A window without a sill, frame, or pane.
An opening and nothing more,
but open wide.
I
need not wait for a clear night
nor crane my neck
to examine the sky.
I have the sky at my back, at hand, and on my eyelids.
The sky wraps me snugly
and lifts me from below.
Even
the highest mountains
are no nearer the sky than the deepest valleys.
There is no more sky in one place
than another.
A cloud is crushed by sky as ruthlessly as a grave.
A mole is as enraptured as a wing-fluttering owl.
A object falling into a precipice
falls from the sky into sky.
Granular, liquid, craggy,
fiery and volatile
expanses of sky,
crumbs of sky,
puffs and snatches of sky.
The sky is omnipresent
even in darkness under the skin.
I eat sky, I excrete sky.
I am a trap inside a trap,
an inhabited inhabitant,
an embraced embrace,
a question in answer to a question.
To divide earth and sky
is not the correct way
to consider this whole.
It merely allows survival
under a more precise address,
quicker to be found
if I were to be looked up.
My call words
are delight and despair
Wislawa
Szymborska
translated by Walter Whipple
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Austin's
Mt. Bonnell is one of Austin, Texas' oldest tourist
attractions being documented as far back as 1850. It
is the highest point within Austin City Limits at 785
feet, but is actually smaller than Mt. Larson directly
across from Mt. Bonnell but located in West Lake Hills.
A wonderful place to picnic in the sun, Mt. Bonnell
contains views of Town Lake and the Pennybacker Bridge
as well as wonderful vistas of downtown .
Climb
Date: April
7, 2002 (11:00 AM to 6:00 PM)
The
reading on Mt. Bonnell and in Austin, Texas will be
organized by Peggy Zuleika Lynch.
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Wislawa
Szymborska was born in Kornik in Western Poland on
2 July 1923. Since 1931 she has been living in Krakow,
where during 1945-1948 she studied Polish Literature and
Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. Szymborska made
her début in March 1945 with a poem "Szukam slowa" (I
am Looking for a Word) in the daily "Dziennik Polski".
During 1953-1981 she worked as poetry editor and columnist
in the Kraków literary weekly "Zycie Literackie" where
the series of her essays "Lektury nadobowiazkowe" appeared
(the series has been renewed lately in the addition to
"Gazeta Wyborcza"-"Gazeta o Ksiazkach"). The collection
"Lektury nadobowiazkowe" was published in the form of
a book four times. Szymborska has published 16 collections
of poetry: Dlatego zyjemy (1952), Pytania zadawane
sobie (1954), Wolanie do Yeti (1957), Sól
(1962), Wiersze wybrane (1964), Poezje wybrane
(1967), Sto pociech (1967), Poezje (1970),
Wszelki wypadek (1972), Wybór wierszy (1973),
Tarsjusz i inne wiersze (1976), Wielka liczba
(1976), Poezje wybrane II (1983), Ludzie
na moscie (1986). Koniec i poczatek (1993,
1996), Widok z ziarnkiem piasku. 102 wiersze (1996)
. Wislawa Szymborska is the Goethe Prize winner (1991)
and Herder Prize winner (1995). She has a degree of Honorary
Doctor of Letters of Poznan University (1995). In 1996
she received the Polish PEN Club prize. |
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