Though she was [Zbigniew] Herbert's contemporary, I place her last not only because she outlived both him and [Czeslaw] Milosz, but also because her death last week, at the age of eighty-eight, definitively brings to an end the latest brilliant age of Polish poetry. If there were any reason to feel grateful for four-and-a-half decades of Communist rule in Poland, it might be that these three poets emerged from its highly pressurized constraints like diamonds forced from carbon.from The New Republic: A Requiem to an Age of Brilliant Polish Poetry
then The News: Poland bids farewell to poet Wisława Szymborska
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