false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172174870m/145663.jpg 145663 2 <div><b>A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.</b><br><br><i>To Begin Where I Am</i> brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, written in 1942 in the form of a letter to his friend Jerzy Andrzejewski, to brief biographical sketches and poetic prose pieces from the late 1990s, this volume presents Milosz the prose writer in all his multiple, beguiling guises. The incisive, sardonic analyst of the seductive power of communism is also the author of tender, elegiac portraits of friends famous and obscure; the witty commentator on Polish complexes writes lyrically of the California landscape. Two great themes predominate in these essays, several of which have never appeared before in English: Milosz's personal struggle to sustain his religious faith, and his unswerving allegiance to a poetry that is "on the side of man."<br></div> 1718403 2001 To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays total:42|5:25|4:13|3:4|2:0|1:0| 42 189 86 6 5 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 08:43:33 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 08:51:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Apr 05 06:42:42 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 05 06:50:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 24 14:13:56 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 14:41:37 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 14:13:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 07:29:55 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 13:22:15 -0800 2008
That said, his poetry (at least in translation) is wonderful. I'm primarily familiar with what's in "The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry."]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Nov 03 15:31:23 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 15:32:04 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Feb 06 09:09:20 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 09:10:15 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 09:38:37 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:38:37 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:11:16 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 00:11:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 06:12:04 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 06:12:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 29 09:43:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 09:43:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 23 07:52:52 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 07:52:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 06 14:58:47 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 14:58:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 30 19:27:26 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 19:27:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 07 13:09:49 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:09:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 29 16:51:32 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 16:51:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 20 11:25:07 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 11:25:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 10 13:11:09 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 13:11:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 09 17:39:04 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 17:39:04 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 06 17:33:13 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 17:33:13 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 07 07:59:43 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 03 20:41:25 -0800 2009 Thu May 07 07:59:43 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=145663