New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
About this audiobook
Nobel Prize laureate Czeslaw Milosz is a master poet whose verse has often reflected the ancient themes of the nature of imagination, human experience, good and evil, and the wonders of life. New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001, the collection of a lifetime of work, also includes a book of new poems, This, published in this volume for the first time in English.
This collection, the majority of which is translated by former Poet Laureate and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Robert Hass, is an essential book for Milosz’s many fans and for anyone interested contemporary poetry.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
About the author
Czeslaw Milosz 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.
