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Milosz as Andersen's Mermaid
In Bells in Winter, Milosz tells us he doesn't quite fit into our age with its 'chess games' of 'killing for the common good,' that 'like the mermaid from Andersen's tale, I tried to walk correctly but a thin pain reminded methat I was foolish to try to imitate people.' No other book connectsMilosz's essays about the pain of living in our Blakean 'Land of Ulro' tohis poetry as well as this, with its shocking poetic insights into howhumans got themselves into this mess, often given in a single swift,double-edged metaphor, as in the Notes section: 'The tempter in the garden:A still-looking branch, both cold and living.' A ton of philosophy, sorrow,and hope in a crafty little phrase -- the quintessential Milosz.

Beautiful and indestructible poetry
Like just a handful of poets (Yeats comes instantly to mind), Czeslaw Milosz has surrendered none of his artistic powers to old age. Yet the poems collected here, which date back as far as 1936, indicate that thefuture Nobelist was playing at the top of his game from the beginning. Theshorter lyrics, like "Ars Poetica?", are true marvels. And whilethe longer sequences can be a touch uneven, devolving into prose-likeparagraphs, they remain object lessons for any poet in any language--andany intelligent reader. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Czesław Miłosz, Seamus Heaney, Jeremiah Curtin, Robert Pinsky, Anthea Bell, Stanisław Barańczak, Daniel Bourne, Leo Yankevich, Walter Whipple, Christopher Kasparek, Marcel Weyland, Norbert Guterman, Michael Kandel, Louis Iribarne, Charles S. Kraszewski. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Seamus Heaney (born 13 April 1939, pronounced ) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. He currently lives in Dublin. Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge in Northern Ireland; he was the first of nine children. In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home. His father, Patrick Heaney, a local of Castledawson, was the eighth child of ten born to James and Sarah Heaney. Patrick was a farmer but his real commitment was to cattle-dealing, to which he was introduced by the uncles who had cared for him after the early death of his own parents. Heaney's mother came from the McCann family, whose uncles and relations were employed in the local linen mill and whose aunt had worked as a maid for the mill owner's family. The poet has commented on the fact that his parentage thus contains both the Ireland of the cattle-herding Gaelic past and the Ulster of the Industrial Revolution; he considers this to have been a significant tension in his background. Heaney initially attended Anahorish Primary School and when he was twelve-years-old, he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in Derry. Heaney's brother, Christopher, was killed in a road accident at the age of four (while Heaney was studying at St. Columb's). The poems Mid-Term Break and The ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=50920 ... Read more

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Good book, so-so condition
I thought the condition of the book was a little disappointing. It was a little bit dirty, and appeared to be a little more used than the seller let on. The content itself was good, though. ... Read more

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Chapters: Czesław Miłosz, Władysław Bartoszewski, Jan Karski, Irena Sendler, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Jerzy Szacki, Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, Stefan Korboński, Rudolf Weigl, Irene Gut Opdyke, Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz, Henryk Iwański, Jerzy and Irena Krępeć, Podgórski Sisters, Jan and Anna Puchalski, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Antoni Gawryłkiewicz, Jerzy Jan Lerski, Stanisław Jasiński and Emilia Słodkowska, Maria Kotarba, Zofia Baniecka, Irena Adamowicz, Henryk Woliński, Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek, Henryk Sławik, Mieczysław Fogg, Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński, Anna Borkowska, Józef Zwonarz, Jan Żabiński, Krystyna Dańko, Eryk Lipiński, Ferdynand Arczyński, Julian Grobelny, Jerzy Zagórski, Maria Fedecka, Igor Newerly, Andrzej Garbuliński, Szczepan Bradło, Jan Dobraczyński, Konrad Rudnicki, Stefan Jagodziński, Aleksander Kamiński, Andrzej Miłosz, Wanda Makuch-Korulska. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust. There are 6,195 Polish men and women recognized as "Righteous" to this day, amounting to over 25 per cent of the total number of 22,765 honorary titles awarded already. It is estimated that in fact hundreds of thousands of Poles concealed and aided hundreds of thousands of their Polish-Jewish neighbors. Many of these initiatives were carried out by individuals, but there also existed organized networks of Polish resistance who was dedicated to aiding Jewsmost notably, the egota organization. In German-occupied Poland the task of rescuing Jews was especially difficult and dangerous. All household members were punished by death if a Jew was f...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16895716 ... Read more

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Title: Czeslaw Milosz: The Persistence of Existence.(Nobel Prize winner, poet)(Critical Essay)
Author: E. J. Czerwinski
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
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Title: Chaplain of shades: the ending of Czeslaw Milosz.(Comment)(Second Space: New Poems)(Book Review)
Author: Clare Cavanagh
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2005
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Janusz Korczak, Alexandre Chodzko, Jan Karski, Jerzy Grotowski, Adam Mickiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz, Jean Potocki, Isaac Deutscher, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Liste Alphabétique D'écrivains Polonais, Wisława Szymborska, Antoni Grabowski, Witold Gombrowicz, Kazimierz Brodziński, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Jan Dantyszek, Ferdynand Ossendowski, Bolesław Leśmian, Andrzej Sapkowski, Andrzej Żuławski, Jerzy Kosinski, Dorota Masłowska, Stanisław Staszic, Bolesław Prus, August Von Cieszkowski, Stanisław Barańczak, Tadeusz Konwicki, Hugo Kołłątaj, Jan Waclav Makhaïski, Julian Tuwim, Ryszard Kapuściński, Andrzej Bobkowski, Lucjan Wolanowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Kazimierz Bein, Filippo Buonaccorsi, Mathias Strykowski, Władysław Kopaliński, Leszek Engelking, Józef Czapski, Andrzej Kijowski, Jan Kott, Jacek Kaczmarski, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Jean Malaquais, Władysław Reymont, Jan Chodzko, Faddeï Boulgarine, Jan Brzechwa, Catherine Radziwill, Stefan Żeromski, Anna Langfus, Igor Newerly, Wacław Potocki, Stanisław Lubieniecki, Ignacy Krasicki, Julien-Ursin Niemcewicz, Jan Józef Lipski, Tadeusz Borowski, Anna Świrszczyńska, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Jacob Glatstein, Stanisław de Skarbimierz, Stanislas Konarski, Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, Roma Ligocka, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Sławomir Mrożek, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Maciej Słomczyński, Kornel Makuszyński, Isaïe Spiegel, Jean Offredo, Aleksander Fredro, Henryk Rzewuski, Kornel Ujejski, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Michał Wiszniewski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Arkady Fiedler, Zygmunt Krasiński, Stanisław Wyspiański, Kazimierz Waliszewski, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Andrzej Stasiuk, Wacław Berent, Charles-Edmond Chojecki...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Czesław Miłosz, Mikalojus Daukša, Abraomas Kulvietis, Vincentas Sladkevičius, Józef Montwiłł, Szymon Marcin Kossakowski, Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski, Israel Davidson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Czesaw Miosz ( listen) (June 30, 1911 August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship. His World War II-era masterpiece, The World, is a sequence of 20 "naive" poems. Defecting to the West in 1951, his non-fiction The Captive Mind (1953) is one of the classics of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Czesaw Miosz was born on June 30, 1911 in the village of eteniai/Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kdainiai district, Kaunas County, Lithuania) on the border between two Lithuanian historical regions of Samogitia and Auktaitija in central Lithuania. He was a son of Aleksander Miosz (? - 1959), a civil engineer, and Weronika, née Kunat (? - 1945), descendant of the Siruiai noble family. His brother, Andrzej Miosz (19172002), a Polish journalist, translator of literature and of film subtitles into Polish, was a documentary-film producer who created some Polish documentaries about his famous brother. Miosz emphasized his identity with the multi-ethnic Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a stance that led to ongoing controversies; he refused to categorically identify himself as either a Pole or a Lithuanian. He once said of himself: "I am a Lithuanian to whom it was not given to be a Lithuanian." Milosz was fluent in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, English and French. Czesaw Miosz (right) with brother Andrzej Miosz at PEN Club ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6542 ... Read more

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Title: The witness of Czeslaw Milosz.
Author: Jeremy Driscoll
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2004
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Title: The "memory" of Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-2004.(Notebook)
Author: Hilton Kramer
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
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Volume: 23Issue: 2Page: 79(2)

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L'?uvre de Czeslaw Milosz (Prix Nobel de littérature 1980) s'étend sur près de trois quart de siècles et n'a pour le moment fait l'objet, même en Pologne, que d'études thématiques ou fragmentaires. Cet ouvrage est la première monographie, qui l'aborde dans sa globalité :Il présente l'architecture de sa poésie à travers de nombreuses exégèses pour tenter de saisir le réseau des symboles qui structurent son sens profond.La poésie de Milosz, extrêmement sensuelle et enracinée dans la matérialité de ce monde, est en même temps un long voyage à travers les symboles et les archétypes de notre culture; mais à son horizon c'est la quête du divin qui se profile. ... Read more

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Title: Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)--lo pronunciado se fortalece.(autor)(Obituario)
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
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Volume: 6Issue: 70Page: 71(4)

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Title: Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations.(Book review)
Author: Piotr Florcyk
Publication: World Literature Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
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Volume: 81Issue: 3Page: 79(1)

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Czesław Miłosz, Marija Gimbutas, Adam Mickiewicz, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Ignacy Domeyko, Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz, Kazimierz Siemienowicz, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Juliusz Słowacki, Simonas Daukantas, Konstantinas Sirvydas, Jacob Sheskin, Joachim Lelewel, Jakub Wujek, Zigmas Zinkevičius, Karol Podczaszyński, Aleksander Chodźko, Ina Marčiulionytė, Algirdas Šemeta, Edvardas Gudavičius, Menachem Savidor, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Leonard Chodźko, Józef Sękowski, Jędrzej Śniadecki, Martinus Smiglecius, Johann Peter Frank, Jan Śniadecki, Tomas Venclova, Edmundas Rimša, Alfredas Bumblauskas, Daniel Klein, Henryk Łowmiański, Tadeusz Czeżowski, Andrius Baltuska, Vilenas Vadapalas, Sigitas Geda, Tomasz Zan. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (pronounced: ( listen); in Belarusian, ; in Lithuanian, Adomas Bernardas Mickeviius; December 24, 1798 November 26, 1855) was a was a Polish-Lithuanian Romantic poet one of Poland's Three Bards, alongside Zygmunt Krasiski and Juliusz Sowacki. Mickiewicz scion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, born in what is now Belarus, educated at Lithuania's Vilnius University, a Polish-language poet is claimed as a national poet by Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Mickiewicz is considered by some to have been the greatest Slavic poet, alongside Alexander Pushkin. Mickiewicz's house, Navahrudak Portrait by Wakowicz, 1828 Daguerrotype, 1842 Mickiewicz's temporary grave under his Istanbul apartment, now Adam Mickiewicz MuseumAdam Mickiewicz was born at his uncle's estate in Zaosie, near Navahrudak in the Russian Empire (now Belarus). The region of Mickiewicz's birth had once been ethnically Lithuanian, but now had a Belarusian-speaking peasant population. His father, Mikoaj Mickiewicz, was a member of the n...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=158252 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Alexandre Chodzko, Adam Mickiewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Bolesław Leśmian, Isaac Satanow, Tadeusz Różewicz, Stanisław Staszic, Stanisław Barańczak, Grazyna Miller, Julian Tuwim, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Mathias Strykowski, Leszek Engelking, Jacek Kaczmarski, Jan Brzechwa, Jan Kochanowski, Juliusz Słowacki, Mordechai Gebirtig, Wacław Potocki, Ignacy Krasicki, Anna Świrszczyńska, Stanislas Konarski, Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Mikołaj Sęp-Szarzyński, Kornel Ujejski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Zygmunt Krasiński, Stanisław Wyspiański, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Józef Wybicki, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Łukasz Górnicki, Rafał Wojaczek, Zbigniew Herbert, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz, Jerzy Żuławski, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Cyprian Godebski, Małgorzata Malicka, Thomas Zan, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Mikołaj Rej, Jerzy Pietrkiewicz, Andrzej Bursa, Karolina Kusek, Paweł Sarna, Władysław Broniewski, Biernat de Lublin, Tadeusz Gajcy, Jan Riesenkampf. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Edward Rydz-Smigly (11 mars 1886 à Berejany (Ukraine)- 2 décembre 1941), connu aussi sous les noms de guerre Smigly, Tarlowski, Adam Zawisza à Varsovie), est un homme politique polonais, officier de l'armée polonaise, peintre et poète. Après de nombreuses victoires comme commandant d'armée durant la guerre russo-polonaise, Rydz succéda à Józef Piłsudski comme maréchal de Pologne (à partir du 11 novembre 1936) et commandant en chef des forces armées polonaises. Il occupa ce poste pendant l'invasion de la Pologne en septembre 1939, événement qui ouvrit la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Édouard Rydz naquit ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Czeslaw Milosz. To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays.
Author: Jerzy R. Kryzanowski
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76Issue: 2Page: 123(1)

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Title: Czeslaw Milosz. Milosz's ABC's.(Brief Article)
Author: David Seed
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 22Issue: 1Page: 150(2)

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