This is the most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from
across his writing life. This selection brings together the most
beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his
writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval,
revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My
Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt to his native
Polish language. He also remembers his schooldays in 'The World',
and in 'Bypassing Rue Descartes' recalls the Paris streets of his
student years, displaying both tenderness and tough-minded fury
towards those who shaped his experiences. Writing not about
abstract emotions, but about the horrors and beauty that he
directly observed, Milosz opens our eyes to the joy-bringing
potential of the poetry to which he gave his life. Winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1980. Born in Lithuania while it was still
part of the Russian Empire, he lived much of his life in Poland or
exiled in California. He was the author of one of the definitive
books on totalitarianism, The Captive Mind, but also wrote with
extraordinary vividness and moral authority on his childhood, his
experiences under Nazism and on the tragedy of Central Europe.
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