Description: "A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C. and his years in Europe before and after"--Provided by publisher.
Brief description:
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, DC, as a Polish cultural attaché. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2004.
Review Quotes:
"Milosz is a poet of history, of consciousness, of the deep engagement with the necessity of intellectual freedom. . . Poet in the New World is a superb introduction to a poet of reality who remembers his 'sweet European homeland' where 'blood gathers in the mouths of tulips.'" - Wall Street Journal