A large number (1976)


Contains 25 poems which are the continuation of the "Could have". Realistic desperation of everyday life and trivial events coexists with it's philosophical interpretation. Everything in this collection is about the quantity, numbers and arithmetic. It starts with the poem "A large number" and finished with "Pi". It says about an overabundance, overflow of everything which creates the anonymous crowd with lonely people. Szymborka contemplate this world from an unique person point to view.