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Title: New and Collected Poems : 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0-06-051448-5 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Poetry
Comment: This is a great collection of poetry from a truly amazing man. The things he's been through in his life of over 90 years provide amazing backdrops for his poetry and breathe wonderful detail into his poetry. I can pick up his book every day and still love it as much as the day I bought it. If you don't take my word for it, take the Nobel Prize distributors' word for it, since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980. If you buy one book of poetry in your life, buy this book! It is amazing and will have a great impact on your poetry and your life!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Beautiful, Important Work by a true Master...
Comment: Students of literature and philosophy familiar with the poetry and political-mythological writing of Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw
Milosz do not need to be convinced that NEW and COLLECTED POEMS: 1931-2001 is a treasure. The author essays power and profundity in his study of totalitarian mentality in THE CAPTIVE MIND.In THE EMPEROR of the EARTH: Modes of Eccentric Vision, he dissected the nihilistic essence of Post-Modernism and those infatuated by it. But it is as POET that Milosz manifests genius...tempered by humility and GRATITUDE ...in bedazzling insights into the human condition.Unlike Solzhenitsyn, with whom he bears comparison as Cross-bearer of TRUTH, Milosz seems...as poets must...more capable of life-affirming epiphanies of love, beauty and friendship with man and nature in the face of chaos, deceit, violence and suffering; that has characterized --and continues to erupture--the 20th century...
I propose here we have another Dante. This marvelous work is his DIVINE TRAGEDY. The SUMMA...poetic, historic, gnostic, archetypal... jouney, quest, trial of a gifted man doomed to understand cosmic forces in apocalyptic battle for the tiny(cosmic???)souls of men is his epic account of what St. Augustine rendered as The City of God vs. The City of Man.
Is beauty here? Are there "time-out's" for play(song;lust; games; most important of all: redemptive hope and wonder-in-gratitude)? Readers of Czeslaw Milosz already know or think they know his poetic "replies".TRUTH is beauty. But not the "cheap" Keat's Urn-stuff...It must affirm GOOD. On pp. 252-253,Milosz WARNS a
child (Berkeley college student in 1963)against BE-coming a liar: "If you have not read the Slavic poets/ so much the better. There's nothing there for a Scotch-Irish wanderer to seek./ They lived in a childhood prolonged from age to age./ For them, the sun and moon was a farmer's ruddy face, the moon peeped through a cloud and the Milky Way gladdened them like a birch-lined road./They longed for the Kingdom that was always near, always right at hand......WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH YOU? You did not know what I know./ No one with impunity gives to himself
the eyes of a god.../Better to carve suns and moons on the joints of crosses...as was done in my district...to implore protection against the mute and treacherous might/ than to proclaim, as you did, an inhuman thing..."
Agree with the voice that prompted St. Augustine 2000 years ago; or recently in the laudatory article printed in April's ATLANTIC MONTHLY: "Take and read"...this beautiful, important work by a true Master.
Rating: 5
Summary: After 9.11
Comment: After September 11th, I, a formerly avid reader, could no longer read anything but news, dreadful news. A lifelong subscriber to the New Yorker, I picked up an issue which magically opened to a poem by Milosz. I think it was the first or second issue that followed the bombings.
The poem provided one of those rare moments where one feels transformed by words, where life is worth living again because someone said something so beautifully that it was again worth it to continue on.
I don't even know if Milosz wrote that poem specifically in response to what happened on September 11th; surely he saw greater horrors in Poland than we can even imagine. Yet ever since, his words have granted me peace, not only from the fear of annihilation through disaster, but from the ultimate annihilation of death.
I also love that he's still writing at ninety. I love how, against all odds, he decided to fall the way of faith.
I read one of his poems each night, like a prayer, like a song.
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Title: To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czeslaw Milosz, Bogdana Carpenter, Madeline G. Levine, Madeline Levine ISBN: 0374528594 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0156005743 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska, Stanislaw Baranczak, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisaw Baranczak ISBN: 0156011468 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0679728562 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Treatise on Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass ISBN: 0060185244 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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