How to Start Writing (and When to Stop)In this witty "how to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave anonymously for many years in the well known Polish journal Literary Life. She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly. "I