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1	A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz (Editor) For A Book of Luminous Things Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz has selected 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages, poems memorable for how they render the realities of the world palpable and immediate. They are organized under eleven headings - including "Epiphany", "Nature", "The Secret of a Thing", "Travel", "Places", ... see all copies from £6.43! new only from £10.22! \| first editions
2	The Captive Mind more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future. see all copies from £4.89! new only from £9.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Collected Poems 1956-1998 more books like this by Zbigniew Herbert, Alissa Valles (Editor), Czeslaw Milosz (Translator) This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, "String of Light," in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, "Epilogue Of the Storm," "Collected Poems: 1956-1998," as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's "SSelected Poems," is "bound for a ... see all copies from £7.81! new only from £9.01! \| first editions
4	New and collected poems, 1931-2001 more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz The authoritative edition of the work of one of the world's greatest living poets. This volume brings together a selection of Milosz's poetry from his early youth in Poland to poems marking a new century. see all copies from £6.97! new only from £7.35! \| first editions
5	Facing the river more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz did not believe he would ever return to the river valley in which he grew up. But in the spring of 1989, exactly fifty years after he left, the new government of independent Lithuania welcomed him back to that magical region of his childhood. Many of the poems in "Facing the River" record his experiences there, where the river of ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £5.89! \| first editions
6	Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz The autobiography of the Nobel laureateBefore he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history from childhood to the early fifties, providing ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Issa Valley more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz Reissued to mark Milosz's 90th birthday, THE ISSA VALLEY is a brilliant evocation of life on the Polish-Russian borders in the early 20th century, an extraordinary piece of nature-writing and a profound meditation on childhood. Milosz's book is acclaimed as an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern affliction (where compelling ... see all copies from £1.44! new only from £10.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Visions from San Francisco Bay more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in "The Nation," called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization." see all copies from £5.54! new only from £10.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	My Century more books like this by Aleksander Wat, Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by) The author recalls his involvement with Communism as editor of an influential literary review in pre-war Poland, the magazine's banning and his first imprisonment. He describes his disenchantment with Communism and his flight east with his family at the outbreak of World War II. see all copies from £5.37! new only from £7.99! \| first editions
10	Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943 more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine (Translator), Mr. Jaroslaw Anders (Introduction by) Now available in English for the first time, this collection brings together some of noted poet Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of 1942-43. see all copies from £5.55! new only from £5.55! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Witness of Poetry more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe," a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £11.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Second Space: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz Concerned with questions of aging and mortality, "A Second Space" furthers 93-year-old Nobel laureate Milosz's reputation as "arguably the greatest living poet" (Edward Hirsch, "New York Times Book Reviews"). see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.84! \| first editions
13 view cover	Milosz's ABC's more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine (Translator) Nobel Prize-winning poet Milosz compiles a series of short pieces about a host of topics including Camus and Baudelaire, money, happiness, and meditations on many aspects of his important literary life. The entries, concerning the many phases of his 60-year career, are arranged alphabetically. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.15! \| first editions
14 view cover	Provinces more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz "Provinces", Czeslaw Milosz's first book of poems since "The Collected Poems" (Penguin, 1988), continues his investigations into the urgent themes that have absorbed his work from the beginning. These poems are about what it is to be human in a world of provinces, shifting borders, conflict and crisis. From the perspective of old age - he is now ... see all copies from £6.03! new only from £53.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine more books like this by Andrzej Szczeklik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator), Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by) The ancient Greeks used the term catharsis for the cleansing of both the body by medicine and the soul by art. In this inspiring book, internationally renowned cardiologist Andrzej Szczeklik draws deeply on our humanistic heritage to describe the artistry and the mystery of being a doctor. Moving between examples ancient and contemporary, ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.87! \| first editions
16 view cover	A Treatise on Poetry more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass (Translator), Czesaw Miosz This book-length poem by Nobel Prize recipient Milosz addresses Eastern European poetry in the 20th century. A native of Poland, Milosz offers insight on Poland before the war, through the turbulence of Nazism, into the poet's emigration to France, and on into his experiences in the United States. In this meditation on history and the individual ... see all copies from £7.63! new only from £7.63! \| first editions
17	The history of Polish literature more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz see all copies from £8.28! new only from £16.38! \| first editions
18 view cover	Collected Poems more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz To find my home in one sentence, concise, as if hammered in metal. No to enchant anybody. Not to earn a lasting name in posterity. An unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three words are opposed to chaos and nothingness. -- Czeslaw Milosz see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.36! \| first editions
19 view cover	Postwar Polish Poetry more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, Czeslaw Milosz (Editor) This expanded edition of "Postwar Polish Poetry" (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion ... see all copies from £6.55! new only from £12.52! \| first editions
20 view cover	Bells in Winter more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Lillian Vallee (Translator) Begun in the winter of 1955 and completed in the spring of 1956, Treatise on Poetry is a brilliant meditative poem fully expressive of the powers that have made Milosz one of our greatest writers. Expertly translated, the poem is divided into four parts -- Europe at the turn of the century, the condition of Polish culture between the two world ... see all copies from £6.90! new only from £7.45! \| first editions
21 view cover	Road-Side Dog more books like this by Czesaw Miosz, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass (Translator) Prose and poetry from the Nobel Prize-winning Polish émigré writer. The Los Angeles Times chose this as one of the best books of poetry of 1998. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £13.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Land of Ulro more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz Milosz's memoir writes about his childhood in Lithuania, his years in Poland during the Nazi occupation, and his concerns about our society and its future. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £24.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Lucifer Unemployed more books like this by Aleksander Wat, Lillian Vallee (Translator), Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword by) see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.66! \| first editions
24 view cover	Emperor of the Earth more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart," which is a confession of the author's remorse based on conflict with French intellectuals. "Science Fiction and the Coming of the Antichrist" concerns Vladimir ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £16.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	The Guinea Pigs more books like this by Ludvik Vaculik, Kaca Polackova (Translator) see all copies from £5.54! new only from £16.60! \| first editions

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