Calling Out to Yeti (Wołanie do Yeti)

The true first edition is the 1957 Polish Wołanie do Yeti (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków) — Szymborska's third book but her acknowledged mature debut, the volume in which she broke from Socialist Realism, containing signature poems including "Nic dwa razy" ("Nothing Twice"). There is no first-edition novel to chase; her canon is her poetry. The FIRST English-language book of her poetry is Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems, translated and introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire (Princeton University Press, 1981; bilingual, Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) — this, not the more famous later selection, is the true first in English. The book that drove her Anglophone fame just before the 1996 Nobel is View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, preface by Mark Strand (Harcourt Brace, 1995) — the most-collected English title, but a 1995 selection, not the first English appearance.