The long-awaited paperback edition of Selected Poems, revised and updated with more than forty new poems never before published in English2011 marks the centenary year of one of the twentieth century's most important poets, Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz. To mark the occasion, Anthony Milosz has tran[...]

"To Begin Where I Am" brings together a rich sampling of poet Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, this is a comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated i[...]

Brand new and selected older poems by the Nobel laureate are gathered together in a retrospective collection that covers seven decades in the life and career of an extraordianary literary talent. Reprint.[...]

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.[...]

"A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz Czesław Miłosz's "A Book of Luminous Things"--his personal selection of poems from the past and present--is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so th[...]

Like "Native Realm," Czeslaw Milosz's autobiography written thirty years earlier, "A Year of the Hunter" is a "search for self-definition." A diary of one year in the Nobel laureate's life, 1987-88, it concerns itself as much with his experience of remembering as with the actual events that shape hi[...]

This collection represents the best work of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. Including an introduction by Czeslaw Miosz, this volume samples the full range of Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty and the illusory character of art.[...]

This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart", which is a confession of the author's remorse based on conflict with French intellectuals. "Science Fiction and th[...]

Essays discuss the isolation of the poet, the tension between classicism and realism, the impact of reductionism, and the state of poetry in Europe[...]

Milosz survived the Soviet invasion of his beloved Lithuania, escaped to Nazi-occupied Warsaw where he joined the Socialist resistance, then witnessed the Holocaust and the razing of the Warsaw Ghetto. After persecution and censorship triggered his defection in 1951, he found not relief but the angu[...]

Czeslaw Milosz var länge känd för omvärlden

som politisk exilförfattare. Men när han tilldelades Nobelpriset 1980 var det också för sin lyrik, där man i motiveringen kan läsa att han »med kompromisslös

klarsyn tolkar människans utsatthet i en värld av starka konfl[...]