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“Milosz is at all times direct, even simple. He has the ability to return the pleasures of poetry to ordinary readers, and in his prose, as here, he makes you suspect that the great intellectual sin of our time may be a fear of the obvious.”                                                                                               Vanity FairCzeslaw Milosz is the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize in Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include many volumes of poetry (most recently, Collected Poems1931-1987), the novels The Issa Valley and The Seizure of Power, the autobiographical Native Realm, the classic analysis of totalitarian thinking The Captive Mind, several volumes of essays and criticism, most recently Beginning with My Streets.Since 1961 he has been Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California at Berkeley.