View with a grain of sand : selected poems / Wisława Szymborska ; translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.

from Calling out to Yeti 1957 : Brueghel's two monkeys
Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan expedition
Nothing twice
from Salt 1962 : Museum
A moment in Troy
Clochard
Vocabulary
Travel elegy
An unexpected meeting
Rubens' women
Coloratura
Bodybuilders' contest
Poetry reading
The tower of Babel
Water
Conversation with a stone
from No end of fun 1967 : The joy of writing
Landscape
Family album
The railroad station
Born
Soliloquy for Cassandra
A Byzantine mosaic
Beheading.

Pieta
Returning birds
Thomas Mann
Tarsier
The acrobat
A Palaeolithic fertility fetish
No end of fun
from Could have 1972 : Could have
Theatre impressions
Voices
The letters of the dead
Advertisement
Going home
Discovery
Dinosaur skeleton
Birthday
Allegro ma non troppo
Autotomy
Frozen motion
The classic
In praise of dreams
True love
Under one small star
from A large number 1976 : A large number
Thank-you note
Psalm
Lot's wife
Seen from above
Experiment
Smiles.

The terrorist, he's watching
A medieval miniature
In praise of my sister
Hermitage
Evaluation of an unwritten poem
Warning
The onion
The suicide's room
In praise of feeling bad about yourself
On the banks of the Styx
Utopia
Pi
from The people on the bridge 1986 : Archeology
View with a grain of sand
Clothes
On death, without exaggeration
In broad daylight
Our ancestors' short lives
Hitler's first photograph
The century's decline
Children of our age
Tortures
Plotting with the dead.

Writing a resume
Funeral
An opinion on the question of pornography
A tale begun
Into the ark
Miracle fair
The people on the bridge
from The end and the beginning 1993 : Sky
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The end and the beginning
Hatred
Reality demands
Elegiac calculation
Cat in an empty apartment
Parting with a view
Seance
Love at first sight
May 16, 1973
Maybe all this
Slapstick
Nothing's a gift
One version of events
We're extremely fortunate.