{"product_id":"new-and-collected-poems-1931-2001-9780060514488","title":"New and Collected Poems 1931-2001","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew and Collected Poems: 1931--2001\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that \"to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCzeslaw Milosz worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and defected to France in 1951. His work brings to bear the political awareness of an exile--most notably in \u003cem\u003eA Treatise on Poetry, \u003c\/em\u003e a forty-page exploration of the world wars that rocked the first half of the twentieth century. His later poems also reflect the sharp political focus through which this Nobel Laureate never fails to bear witness to the events that stir the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigging among the rubble of the past, Milosz forges a vision that encompasses pain as well as joy. His work, wrote Edward Hirsch in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review, \u003c\/em\u003e is \"one of the monumental splendors of poetry in our age.\" With more than fifty poems from the end of Milosz's career, this is an essential collection from one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Czeslaw Milosz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.22w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060514488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/27\/2003 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilosz, Czeslaw:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCzeslaw Milosz\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, DC, as a Polish cultural attaché. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43097864274035,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_50d97de4-920c-4208-9c37-bae2715a9247.jpg?v=1748616067","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/new-and-collected-poems-1931-2001-9780060514488","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}