During these difficult days of fear and explosions -- in Boston and West, Texas and where next? -- I have turned to my copy of View with a Grain of Sand (Harcourt Brace, 1993) by Polish Nobelist Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) to find "The Terrorist, He's Watching." Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, this moving poem of numbers and tension also appears in Szymborska's 1976 collection, A Large Number.
The Terrorist, He’s Watching by Wislawa Szymborska
The bomb in the bar will explode at thirteen twenty.
Now it’s just thirteen sixteen.
There’s still time for some to go in,
and some to come out.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Sunday, September 23, 2012
From the Scottish Cafe
A poetry collection by Susan Case (see also 5 July 2011 and 5 August 2011 postings) -- The Scottish Cafe (Slapering Hole Press,
2002) -- celebrates the lives and minds of a group of mathematicians in
Poland during World War II. The observations and insights of Case's poems add new
dimension to the important story of The Scottish Book
-- a book in which the mathematicians recorded problems and
their solutions.
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