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Title: Facing The River by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert (Translator) Hass ISBN: 0-88001-454-7 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fine, supremely accomplished collection
Comment: The prose and poetry of Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz seem to have burst like a tidal wave upon the "active" literary sensibility. Almost "ages" ago he confronted the messianic totalitarian mentality with force and irony which has resonated through decades as intelletual liberator of THE CAPTIVE MIND. His poetry; political, literary and spiritual tracts have indeed created and renewed a River of Truth to flow into thirsty minds and spirits and reflect...Time and Time again...the bloody, the beautiful, the sacred and the profane. In FACING THE RIVER, the Poet provides lyrical moments of self-reckoning, escatological judgment and awed, humble gratitude. With "At a Certain Age", Milosz assumes an Augustinian voice to propose...as was once common in epic poems...an Argument. His intention is to "poetically" confess and render account of himself, his talent...and his Age, in unending if denied conflict with Itself and The City of God. "That's me..." He proposes facing The River of Time...as a bearer and mirror of Human experience. The collection of 40 poems ranges in mode from profoundly personal to historically mythological. The tone and style are understated, certain, wise and usually abounding in GRATITUDE. Milosz is not only privileged POET, he is a privileged SURVIVOR...and he knows it. Early in the collection (# 5: "A Report")he recapitulates his mission as a visionary...not quite a prophet...summoned like a hero-initiate to practice the study of man and produce notes in "the hymnic song against death." And, of course, he succeeds (usually)but sometimes the note is recognizably shrill ("On Capri"; "Sarajevo"). And there is arch humor...self-deprecating; Olympian-apocalyptic that occasionally jars the tone of the over-all work like a needle "scraping" a over-worn groove on an "olden-days" 33/3rd rpm record. The final poem "In Szetejnie" consumates the work and its purpose: Face the River; confess its reflection and humbly submit The Moment to Eternity: "YOU ALONE, wise and just, would know how to calm me, explaining that I did as much as I could..." This is the Judgment Czeslaw Milosz hopes for himself "when what is finished is finished". It is also the word of redemption that he offers for Mankind before a river that is also God's Mind. FACING THE RIVER is an ultimate, poetic dialogue with God. And for the unconvinced or the unbeliever, it still remains a fine, supremely accomplished collection by a Master.
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Title: New and Collected Poems : 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0060514485 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria ISBN: 0393047644 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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