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Podcast: Poetry Unbound
Episode: Introducing: Poems as Teachers (ft. WisÅawa Szymborska) | Ep 1
Description: Host Pádraig à Tuama gives an overview of this Poetry Unbound mini season that's devoted to poems with wisdom to offer about conflict and humanity. He also brings us WisÅawa Szymborskaâs âA Word on Statistics,â translated by Joanna Trzeciak, which covers statistics of the most human kind â like the number of people in a group of 100 who think they know better, who can admire without envy, or who could do terrible things. Listen, and ask yourself: Which categories do I belong to? Which do I believe?WisÅawa Szymborska was a Polish poet and recipient of the 1996...