New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz, Paperback, 9780141186412 | Buy online at Moby the Great

New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Author: Czeslaw Milosz   Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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Celebrates seven decades of the 1980 Nobel Prize winner for literature's exceptional career.

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Celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional careerNew 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."

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About the Author

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
23rd February 2006
Format
Paperback
Pages
800
ISBN
9780141186412

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