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The King of the Ants combines his twin vocations. That is, these are short prose pieces, which Herbert called "mythological essays." Yet the form itself--in which he takes ...
The King of the Ants combines his twin vocations. That is, these are short prose pieces, which Herbert called "mythological essays." Yet the form itself--in which he takes ...
Translated by: Mirosław Lipiński On the Field of Glory is set in one of the most turbulent and critical periods of European history. The story focuses on the gentry in the Ran...
A poet of immense moral authority, in these later poems, the poems of old age, of a long look back at the catastrophic upheavals of the twentieth century, Milosz writes with amazing clarity and a prec...
“To find my home is one sentence, concise, as if hammered in metal. Not to enchant anybody. Not to earn a lasting name in posterity. An unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three ...
For decades, the poetry and prose of Nobel laurate Czaslaw Milosz have enthralled and provoked his readers. To Begin Where I Ambrings together – in the most complete one volume edition available...
Poland is a country which sporadically hits the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 1795 to be resurrected after the Fir...
Czeslaw Milosz’s greatness as a writer has something to do with his gift for going straight to the heart of a question – be it moral, artistc, political, autobiographical – and answe...
“Road-side Dog is an elusive as well as allusive work, a book not exactly of poetry but not of prose either… a pleasure” Richard Bernestein, The New York Times