If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, you know that Polish Nobelist (1996) Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is one of my favorite poets. My Romanian friend Doru Radu, who now lives in Poland, visited New York recently and during my visit with him there he surprised me with a gift -- a posthumous bilingual Szymborska collection, Enough (Wydawnictwo a5, translated by Clare Cavanagh). Here is the English version of a small poem with numbers from that collection:
Hand
Twenty seven bones,
thirty five muscles,
around two thousand nerve cells
in every tip of all five fingers.
It's more than enough
to write "Mein Kampf"
or "Pooh Corner."
Links to additional postings of Szymborska's work may be found here.
Remember also to visit the wonderful Spring 2016 issue of TalkingWriting -- with its smorgasbord of mathy poems.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
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