People on a bridge poems
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Polish |
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London ; Boston :
Forest Books,
1990.
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| Item Description: | English and Polish. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 78 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0948259701 : |
| Author Notes: | In 1945, she published her first poem, I Am Looking for a Word, in a weekly supplement to the local newspaper. Her first book of poetry was published in 1952. Her other volumes of poetry include View with a Grain of Sand, People on a Bridge, Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems, and Here. In 1991 she won the Goethe Prize and in 1995 she was awarded the Herder Prize. She won the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1996 and was awarded The Order of the White Eagle in recognition of her contribution to her country's culture in 2011. From 1953 to 1981, she worked as a poetry editor and columnist for the literary weekly Literary Life, where she wrote a column called Non-Required Reading. She died of lung cancer on February 1, 2012 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) |
