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About this book
New and Collected Poems: 1931—2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz’s exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that “to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name.”
Czeslaw Milosz worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and defected to France in 1951. His work brings to bear the political awareness of an exile—most notably in A Treatise on Poetry, a forty-page exploration of the world wars that rocked the first half of the twentieth century. His later poems also reflect the sharp political focus through which this Nobel Laureate never fails to bear witness to the events that stir the world.
Digging among the rubble of the past, Milosz forges a vision that encompasses pain as well as joy. His work, wrote Edward Hirsch in the New York Times Book Review, is “one of the monumental splendors of poetry in our age.” With more than fifty poems from the end of Milosz’s career, this is an essential collection from one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Publisher’s Note
- Contents
- Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz
- A Poem on Frozen Time (Poemat o czasie zastygłym, 1933)
- Three Winters (Trzy zimy, 1936)
- Rescue (Ocalenie, 1945)
- Daylight (Światło dzienne, 1953)
- A Treatise on Poetry (Traktat poetycki, 1957)
- King Popiel and Other Poems (Król Popiel i inne wiersze, 1962)
- Bobo’s Metamorphosis (Gucio zaczarowany, 1965)
- City Without a Name (Miasto bez imienia, 1969)
- Uncollected Poems (1954–1969)
- From the Rising of the Sun (Gdzie wschodzi slońce i kȩdy zapada, 1974)
- Hymn of the Pearl (Hymn o perle, 1981)
- Unattainable Earth (Nieobjȩta ziemia, 1986)
- New Poems (1985–1987)
- Provinces (Dalsze okolice, 1991)
- Facing the River (Na brzegu rzeki, 1995)
- Road-side Dog (Piesek przydrozny, 1998)
- This (To, 2000)
- Notes
- Index of Poems and Translators
- About the Authors
- Selected Works in English by Czeslaw Milosz
- Copyright
- About the Publisher