false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172174868m/145661.jpg 145661 1 <p> Selected Poems: 1931-2004 </p> <p> celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting pot than a torrent of languages and ideas, where old folk traditions met Catholic, Protestant, Judaic, and Orthodox rites. What unfolded next around him was a century of catastrophe and madness: two world wars, revolutions, invasions, and the murder of tens of millions, all set to a cacophony of hymns, gunfire, national anthems, and dazzling lies. In the thick of this upheaval, wide awake and in awe of living, dodging shrapnel, imprisonment, and despair, Milosz tried to understand both history and the moment, with humble respect for the suffering of each individual. He read voraciously in many languages and wrote masterful poetry that, even in translation, is infused with a tireless spirit and a penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name." Unflinching, outspoken, timeless, and unsentimental, Milosz digs through the rubble of the past, forging a vision -- and a warning -- that encompasses both pain and joy. "His intellectual life," writes Seamus Heaney, "could be viewed as a long single combat with shape-shifting untruth." </p> 140559 1 4 2006 Selected Poems: 1931-2004 total:38|5:20|4:15|3:3|2:0|1:0| 38 169 58 4 5 1 false false Thu Aug 16 10:43:36 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 14:45:08 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 14:48:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 10:02:07 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:02:25 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 13:57:30 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 09:13:19 -0700 2009 I appreciate his practical way of writing. ]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 15 22:12:15 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 06:45:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 19:50:40 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 19:50:49 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 11:07:26 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 11:07:26 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 09:45:54 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 09:45:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Aug 02 20:33:14 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 20:33:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 09 12:28:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 12:28:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 08 18:24:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:24:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed May 20 18:44:47 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 18:44:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 07 07:14:55 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 11:54:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Mar 27 19:43:28 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 19:43:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 07:30:07 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:30:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 19 21:09:05 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 21:09:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 16 07:18:39 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 07:18:42 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 03 23:39:46 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 23:39:46 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jul 30 01:08:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 03 17:08:59 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 30 01:08:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 01 17:14:59 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 17:15:54 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Nov 24 20:14:02 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 20:14:02 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=145661