Given that she was 89, Wisława Szymborska‘s passing was not necessarily unexpected…but it’s still a sad event and a great loss to poetry.
I discovered Szymborska’s work just 10 years ago…five years after she was awarded the Nobel Prize. I was immediately captivated by the power in her deceptively simple poems, particularly those that delved into war and violence and the brutalities we are capable of inflicting on one another.
I’ve posted a few of Szymborska’s poems in the PassionTask Commonplace Book:
