On Wislawa Szymborska’s “Lot’s Wife”
On Wislawa Szymborska’s “Lot’s Wife”

Summary/Abstract: Lot’s wife has fallen into the hands of a poet. This creator or “maker” revives the Biblical story and places Lot’s wife in a “border zone where human actions are hinged together with the divine powers” veering within the margins of happiness. What we “see before the eyes” and hear in this space are momentary actions merged into a defining footnote we now call her life. She begins: [t]hey say I looked back out of curiosity. . . . It’s possible I fell facing the city. [.......]

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