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The Poet's Work - An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz (Paperback, New)
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The Poet's Work - An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz (Paperback, New)
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Born eighty years ago in Lithuania, Czeslaw Milosz has been
acclaimed "one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the
greatest" (Joseph Brodsky). This self-described "connoisseur of
heavens and abysses" has produced a corpus of poems, essays,
memoirs, and fiction of such depth and range that the reader's
imagination is moved far beyond ordinary limits of consciousness.
In The Poet's Work Leonard Nathan and Arthur Quinn follow Milosz's
wanderings in exile from Poland to Paris to Berkeley as they chart
the singular development of his art. Relating his life and his
works to the unfolding of his thought, they have crafted a lucid
reading of Milosz that far surpasses anything yet written on this
often enigmatic poet. The Poet's Work is not only a solid
introduction to Milosz; it is also a unique record of the poet's
own interpretations of his work. As colleagues of Milosz at
Berkeley, Nathan and Quinn had long, detailed discussions with the
poet. It is this spirit of collaboration that brings a sense of
immediacy and authority to their seamless study. Nathan and Quinn
reveal as never before why Milosz is a true visionary, a poet of
ideas in history. And they show how the influence of Blake, Simone
Weil, Dostoevsky, Lev Shestov, and Swedenborg, together with Henry
Miller, Allen Ginsberg, and Robinson Jeffers, has enriched his
vision. Milosz's lifelong experience of totalitarian regimes that
exalt science and technology over individual needs and aspirations,
his acute sense of alienation as an emigre, and his humanistic zeal
and belief in the primacy of living have brought a prismatic
quality to his poetry. At seventy, Milosz spoke of himself as an
"ecstatic pessimist." In their sensitive mapping of his art, Nathan
and Quinn skillfully demonstrate that Milosz's global influence has
been achieved by the ever-shifting balance he strikes between
ecstasy and pessimism. Irony and humor are never far from this
book, which not only communicates Milosz's polyphonic message but
also evokes his uniquely humane sensibility. The Poet's Work is an
illuminating introduction to Milosz that will inform and engage
scholars and general readers for years to come.
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