Czeslaw Milosz, Author, Robert Hass, Translator . Ecco $23.95 (102p) ISBN 978-0-06-074566-0
The title's second space comprises heaven and hell, which have "vanished forever"; without them the blessed cannot "meet salvation" and the damned "find suitable quarters." In mourning, the poet exhorts: "Let us...
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Czeslaw Milosz, Author, Seamus Heaney, Foreword by . Ecco $24.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-06-018867-2
The Lithuanian-born Milosz (1911– 2004) became a leader among Polish-language modernists in the 1930s, then witnessed the Nazi destruction of Warsaw. His epochal early poetry described the horrors of war and the enduring power of joy: "I...
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Czesław Miłosz, trans. from the Polish by Stanley Bill. Yale Univ., $25 (184p) ISBN 978-0-300-21425-3
Lithuanian-born Nobel winner Miłosz, whose poetry chronicles historical calamities, left behind this curious work of previously unpublished science fiction speculating on future depredations. Languishing in Yale University’s Beinecke Library since...
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Czeslaw Milosz, Author, Czesaw Miosz, Author . HarperCollins/Ecco $45 (800p) ISBN 978-0-06-019667-7
"More clever than you, I learned my century, pretending I knew a method for forgetting pain." There are few superlatives left for Milosz's work, but this enormous volume, with its portentous valedictory feel, will have reviewers firing...
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Czeslaw Milosz, Author, Czesaw Miosz, Author, Bogdana Carpenter, Editor , edited and with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (480p) ISBN 978-0-374-25890-0
It would be difficult to overstate the brilliance and breadth of vision of this Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet and prose writer. This collection, spanning five decades, demonstrates an uncommon rigor, respect for truth and refusal to bend to
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Czeslaw Milosz, Author, Madeline Levine, Translator, Jaroslaw Anders, Introduction by , intro. by Jaroslaw Anders. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (266p) ISBN 978-0-374-18499-5
In his landmark 1953 book, The Captive Mind
, Nobel-winning poet and essayist Milosz discoursed on the havoc totalitarian rule plays on the mental processes of intellectuals. Here we see Milosz's own mind at work in Nazi-occupied Warsaw,...
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Czeslaw Milosz, Author, Madeline Levine, Translator, Czesaw Miosz, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-19977-7
""Man has been given to understand/ that he lives only by the grace of those in power./ Let him therefore busy himself sipping coffee, catching butterflies."" So muses Polish migr poet and Nobel laureate Milosz in one of his earlier poems, and...
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Czesaw Miosz, Author, Czeslaw Milosz, Author, Madeline Levine, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $27.5 (294p) ISBN 978-0-374-29344-4
Deeply pessimistic yet oddly invigorating, this diary covering 12 months of Milosz's life in 1987-1988 is a disarmingly candid self-portrait of the Nobel poet, novelist and essayist. Milosz, born in Lithuania in 1911, also recollects the German...
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Czeslaw Miłosz, trans. from the Polish by Robert Hass and David Frick. Ecco, $28 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-342299-5
As editors and translators Hass and Frick explain in the introduction, this stunning volume from Nobel laureate Miłosz (The Last Poems) presents poems written between 1946 and 1950, “when he served as diplomatic official for the newly formed...
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