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Czesław MiłoszSelected And Last Poems 19312004
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.
Czesław Miłosz (born June 30, 1911, Szetejnie, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire – died August 14, 2004, Kraków, Poland) was a Nobel Prize-winning poet, writer and translator. He was born to Polish parents in what is now Lithuania, and during the Second World War, he worked with the underground Resistance movement in Warsaw. He defected in 1951, later becoming an American citizen, and lived in exile until 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980..
