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1. New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 800
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(2003-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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 new poems, this is an essential collection from one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry. Customer Reviews (11)
New & Collected Poems: 1931-2001 Czeslaw Milosz
The everlasting past.
Perfect
To see from soaring above and down to the last detail A great Poet describes the world
I can't bring myself to put it on the shelf |
2. The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(1990-08-11)
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Must Read for Fan's of Orwell or Those Interested in Polish Culture
A Well-Written Study of Intellectual Oppression
A Captivating Book
mind-forged manacles
The Brutal Truth |
3. Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz, Catherine S. Leach | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2002-06-27)
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Humanizing companion to more formal histories of eastern Europe
an excelent essay about life and History in Poland and Lithuania
Look homeward brother
Astonishing auto-biography of the ultimate Eastern European His knowledge of the European history of the 20th century is nor from the books, but something he lived through himself. Milosz traveled to Siberia with his father. He survived both World wars. He studied in France before WW2 and spent the war in Warsaw, where he witnessed destruction of Warsaw after the upraising.Milosz seems very observant, honest, and has a tendency to self-reflection, which makes the narrative even more interesting. He had many dangerous adventures during the war years and he remembers and describes them in great detail.Many of his remarks about Russia are right on target (as Russian I can confirm that). This is great and unique book of the ultimate Eastern European. Definitely worth reading if you are interested in the history of this part of the world. ... Read more |
4. The History of Polish Literature, Updated edition by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 570
Pages
(1983-10-24)
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Standard Polish Literature history Survey |
5. Second Space: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 102
Pages
(2005-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both openings and closings, affirmations as well as losses. "Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, / I felt a door opening in me and I entered / the clarity of early morning," he writes in "Late Ripeness." Elsewhere he laments the loss of his voracious vision -- "My wondrously quick eyes, you saw many things, / Lands and cities, islands and oceans" -- only to discover a new light that defies the limits of physical sight: "Without eyes, my gaze is fixed on one bright point, / That grows large and takes me in." Second Space is typically capacious in the range of voices, forms, and subjects it embraces. It moves seamlessly from dramatic monologues to theological treatises, from philosophy and history to epigrams, elegies, and metaphysical meditations. It is unified by Milosz's ongoing quest to find the bond linking the things of this world with the order of a "second space," shaped not by necessity, but grace. Second Space invites us to accompany a self-proclaimed "apprentice" on this extraordinary quest. In "Treatise on Theology," Milosz calls himself "a one day's master." He is, of course, far more than this. Second Space reveals an artist peerless both in his capacity to confront the world's suffering and in his eagerness to embrace its joys: "Sun. And sky. And in the sky white clouds. / Only now everything cried to him: Eurydice! / How will I live without you, my consoling one! / But there was a fragrant scent of herbs, the low humming of bees, / And he fell asleep with his cheek on the sun-warmed earth." Customer Reviews (6)
Accessible poems; illuminating faith
Second Space
a short and thoughtful collection
The master craftsman speaks to us posthumously
Milosz'Second Space |
6. Road-side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(1999-11-29)
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"Either people's gratitude and respect or an embittered man's four walls."
Musings of a master
Perhaps even worthy of "wise"
Milosz is a reader's delight. |
7. Collected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(1990-07-01)
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8. To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2002-10-02)
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To Begin Where I Am
Elegant and Sophisticated Prose
A Poet's Religious Humanism "To begin where I am" is a selection of Milosz's essays published between 1942 and 1998, some written initially in English, but most written in Polish.The essays are wide-rangingin theme and capture a great deal of the scope ofMilosz's passions.The good introduction to the book by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline Levine point out that Milosz "has centered his writings on a few fundamental philosophical questions: the meaning of history; the existence of evil and suffering; the transience of all life; theascendance of a scientific worldview andthe decline of the religious imagination." The essays are well-arranged into four main sections. The first group of essays titled "These Guests of Mine" is primarily historical and descriptive in character. I enjoyed particularly Milosz's description of Wilno(Vilna) in his "Dictionary of Wilno Streets." For me the heart of the book is in the second and third parts, titled "On the Side of Man" and "Against Incomprehensible Poetry."We learn a great deal about a writer by his discussions of those who have influenced him.In this book,Miloscz's essays on the American poet Robinson Jeffers, on the Russian philospher Lev Shestov, and on the French theological thinker Simone Weil are highly thoughtful.They reveal a writer both struggling for a commitment to religion, to Catholicism in particular, in the face of a scientific and material worldview which he finds inconsistent with it, and a writer committed to humanism, to the best in man and culture.They are an inspiring and difficult set of commitments, and Milosz discusses them eloquently. In Part 3 of the book, the centerpiece is the title essay "Against Incomprehensible Poetry".In this essay, Milosz develops insights from W.H. Auden and makes them his own.Auden had said "there is only one thing that all poetry must do,it must praise all it can for being and for happening." (p.381). This insight becomes the basis of a critique of much obscurantism in modern poetry.We are privileged to hear, in the book, a discussion of the continuing value of poetry and informed discussion of many poets worth knowing, from Whitman, Blake,and Jeffers to many of Milosz's Polish contempories.These latter writers are unknown to me, but Milosz makes one wish for them as companions through his discussions. The fourth part of the book. "In Constant Amazement", is brief and consists of a collection of aphorisms. The aphorism I found most striking discusses the nature of human sexuality.It begins: "Men and women carry within their imagination an image of themselves and of others as sexual beings and often that is the only thing that humanizes them." (p. 436) This book helped me with my own thinking and reflection.I hope it will help you with yours as well. ... Read more |
9. Provinces by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 72
Pages
(1993-07-01)
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Amazing poetry
Let the Endgames Begin As W.B. Yeats does in his late poems, Milosz writes from the perspective of being a widely admired poet grown old. These poems dramatize his internal conflicts, including his doubts about his life's work: he refers to himself in the first, second, and third persons, and some poems openly take the form of internal conversations. These are powerful poems of old age, as often self-ironizing as self-elegizing. Reading translated poetry can be a matter of making allowances, but that's not the case here: Milosz's collaboration with translator Robert Hass results in memorable English renderings of the Polish originals. ... Read more |
10. Dolina Issy (Polish Edition) by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Hardcover: 264
Pages
(1966-12)
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11. Selected Poems: 1931-2004 by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2006-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting pot than a torrent of languages and ideas, where old folk traditions met Catholic, Protestant, Judaic, and Orthodox rites. What unfolded next around him was a century of catastrophe and madness: two world wars, revolutions, invasions, and the murder of tens of millions, all set to a cacophony of hymns, gunfire, national anthems, and dazzling lies. In the thick of this upheaval, wide awake and in awe of living, dodging shrapnel, imprisonment, and despair, Milosz tried to understand both history and the moment, with humble respect for the suffering of each individual. He read voraciously in many languages and wrote masterful poetry that, even in translation, is infused with a tireless spirit and a penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name." Unflinching, outspoken, timeless, and unsentimental, Milosz digs through the rubble of the past, forging a vision -- and a warning -- that encompasses both pain and joy. "His intellectual life," writes Seamus Heaney, "could be viewed as a long single combat with shape-shifting untruth." Customer Reviews (1)
Calling Us Back to Ourselves |
12. The Issa Valley. A Novel.Translated by Louis Iribarne. by CZESLAW. MILOSZ | |
Hardcover:
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(1981)
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What is Man?
A masterpiece of the inner life..
Nature under the microscope! |
13. Visions from San Francisco Bay by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1983-07-01)
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Works even as a translation. |
14. Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943 by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2005-10-12)
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Fascinating look at the origins of Modernism
Well, here we (still) are ..
What the greatest poet of the 20th Century was worried about under German occupation
Perfect for intellectual poet exile thinking |
15. Milosz's ABC's by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2002-01-09)
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Milosz ABC's
What I learned from this ABC book...
More for the friends. |
16. A Treatise on Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Hardcover: 144
Pages
(2001-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz began his remarkable A Treatise on Poetry in the winter of 1955 and finished it in the spring of 1956. It was published originally in parts in the Polish émigré journal Kultura. Now it is available in English for the first time in this expert translation by the award-winning American poet Robert Hass. A Treatise on Poetry is a great poem about some of the most terrible events in the twentieth century. Divided into four sections, the poem begins at the end of the nineteenth century as a comedy of manners and moves with a devastating momentum through World War I to the horror of World War II. Then it takes on directly and plainly the philosophical abyss into which the European cultures plunged. A Treatise on Poetry evokes the European twentieth century, its comedy and terror and grief, with the force and expressiveness of a great novel. A tone poem to a lost time, a harrowing requiem for the century's dead, and a sober meditation on history, consciousness, and art: here is a masterwork that confronts the meaning of the twentieth century with a directness and vividness that are without parallel. Customer Reviews (2)
A great poet's most important work
A reading experience and textual event not to be missed. |
17. EMPEROR OF THE EARTH: Modes of Eccentric Vision. by Czeslaw. Milosz | |
Paperback:
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(1981-01-01)
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18. Conversations With Czeslaw Milosz by Ewa Czarnecka, Aleksander Fiut, Czeslaw Milosz, Renata Gorczynski, Richard Lourie | |
Hardcover: 332
Pages
(1987-09)
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19. An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2010-12-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz presents a collection of remembrances from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in America and Poland. |
20. The Year of the Hunter by Czeslaw Milosz | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(1995-10-31)
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