New and Collected Poems 1931-2001
By (Author) Czeslaw Milosz
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
23rd February 2006
23rd February 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
891.8517
Paperback
800
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 43mm
572g
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."
Milosz Czeslaw (b. 1911), Polish-American author, translator, and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. 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.