{"product_id":"acrobat-wislawa-szymborska-9780571400737","title":"Acrobat","description":"This pocketable volume presents a fresh introduction to the vivid and surprising work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet.\nhow cunningly he weaves himself through his own former shape\nand works to seize this swaying world\nby stretching out the arms he has conceived – \nbeautiful beyond belief at this passing\nat this very passing moment that's just passed.\nThese intimate, immediate poems were written during the precarious years of Soviet occupation in Poland. Rooted in the pains and joys of the everyday, they ask us what it means to live out our lives amid global conflict and its aftermath. Underlying Szymborska’s work is a continual sense of astonishment at having survived, as well as the disbelief and delight that life goes on – that the acrobat's hands have caught the trapeze.\nFeaturing Szymborska’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech as an afterword.\nTranslated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51988682801440,"sku":"9780571400737","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/acrobat-wislawa-szymborska-9780571400737","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}