http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2007/06/14/thursday-short-poem-szymborskas-on-death/ Author, Speaker, Professor, Shattering Gender Myths Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2007/06/14/thursday-short-poem-szymborskas-on-death/#comment-23479 April Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:38:19 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2007/06/14/thursday-short-poem-szymborskas-on-death/#comment-23479 I love that poem! I sort of have a terror of death (not the dying, the not existing.) That poem makes us seem triumphant, not sadly, inevitably waiting to be picked off. I love it. I love that poem! I sort of have a terror of death (not the dying, the not existing.) That poem makes us seem triumphant, not sadly, inevitably waiting to be picked off. I love it.

]]> http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2007/06/14/thursday-short-poem-szymborskas-on-death/#comment-23478 Jill Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:51:38 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2007/06/14/thursday-short-poem-szymborskas-on-death/#comment-23478 I mostly just lurk here...and enjoy the conversation I observe. I wanted to thank you for posting this poem. Tomorrow my mother has been dead for four years. This fact has been at the edge of my mind all day while I tried to ignore it. The line "As far as you’ve come can’t be undone."...for me this comfort is the essence of art. I mostly just lurk here…and enjoy the conversation I observe. I wanted to thank you for posting this poem. Tomorrow my mother has been dead for four years. This fact has been at the edge of my mind all day while I tried to ignore it. The line “As far as you’ve come can’t be undone.”…for me this comfort is the essence of art.

]]> http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2007/06/14/thursday-short-poem-szymborskas-on-death/#comment-23477 Angiportus Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:44:16 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2007/06/14/thursday-short-poem-szymborskas-on-death/#comment-23477 Good one. Thanks. Good one. Thanks.

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